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Female frogs sometimes play dead to avoid mating w...
Frog mating can be a competitive and sometimes deadly affair as many males compete for females – but...
Winning images from Wildlife Photographer of the Y...
Orcas hunting a seal, duelling Nubian ibexes and a stunning horseshoe crab appear in winning images ...
World’s largest offshore wind farm sends first pow...
The Dogger Bank offshore wind farm is located off England’s north-east coast and has begun generatin...
Slicing the moon in half would be disastrous for E...
The moon can be a scourge for astronomers, so the Dead Planets Society has figured out how to destro...
Driving under the influence of cannabis: How high ...
Driving under the influence of cannabis increases the risk of traffic accidents, but despite plenty ...
Mathematician warns US spies may be weakening next...
Quantum computers may soon be able to crack encryption methods in use today, so plans are already un...
Chickens made resistant to bird flu with CRISPR ge...
Modifying a protein in chicken cells can help the birds resist infection by influenza viruses, but f...
Should we be worried about AI's growing energy use...
The expanding use of large AI models demands huge numbers of powerful servers, which could end up co...
Ocean life surged 500 million years ago due to coo...
A fall in sea surface temperatures around 500 million years ago led to the evolution of aquatic life...
The desire for legacy is a mental glitch but we ca...
The strange drive to be remembered after death may result from a cognitive glitch, but it could help...
Professional goalkeepers perceive the world differ...
Psychological tests reveal that goalkeepers are much better than outfield players or non-footballers...
Microgreens: The surprising truth about this trend...
Microgreens are an increasingly popular hobby, and have gained a reputation as the superheroes of th...
ISS livestream: Watch a live link-up with astronau...
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, commander on the International Space Station, answers questions from...
Pickled snake in museum is a new species – but may...
A snake kept in a museum in Zimbabwe since 1982 has been assigned to a new species, the Nyanga rinkh...
How to see the Draconid meteor shower peak tonight...
The Draconid meteor shower is happening between 6 and 10 October, peaking on 9 October, and you shou...
How asteroids can help us understand our place in ...
With the recent launch of the Psyche mission and the return of samples from the asteroid Bennu, aste...
Some of our cells move – and they do it by emittin...
A mammalian cell cannot crawl just anywhere – computer simulations based on experiments suggest that...
Largest known solar storm struck Earth 14,300 year...
By comparing the rings of 140 trees buried in the bank of a French river, researchers estimate that ...
