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How to see the Draconid meteor shower
The Draconid meteor shower is happening between 6 and 10 October, peaking on 9 October, and you shou...
Fractal fingers could let robots securely grasp an...
A robotic gripper inspired by a patent from 1913 consists of a nested arrangement of pivoting joints...
Egg sex screening aims to stop slaughter of billio...
Male chicks have no value to farmers who raise egg-laying chicken breeds, meaning that billions are ...
Scorching September puts 2023 on track to be hotte...
The global average air temperature smashed the September average by half a degree Celsius, leading t...
Amazon is launching its first internet satellites ...
Project Kuiper is Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, and the first pro...
Global power sector has almost hit peak greenhouse...
This year could have been the beginning of the end for emissions from generating electricity, were i...
Being vegetarian may be partly determined by your ...
Two of three genes that affect your likelihood of being vegetarianism are involved in fat metabolism...
Humans lived on Spanish plateau during Earth's las...
Prehistoric people endured frigid and dry conditions in the highlands of central Spain during the co...
Hippos are really bad at chewing their food
Common hippos can't move their mouths side to side to grind their food, while pgymy hippos can only ...
US emergency alert system: Everything to know abou...
Today’s test of the US national alert system on mobile phones is intended to offer opportunities to ...
Wing-flapping robot helps explain the evolution of...
Researchers built tiny robots that can switch between two different kinds of flight, one involving u...
Why China's clean energy tech will determine our c...
China is both the world’s biggest carbon emitter and the largest producer of clean energy tech. Its ...
The Beast review: Is AI the beast in a powerful ta...
Bertrand Bonello’s latest movie, The Beast, invites viewers to grapple with what dependency on techn...
Starlink carbon footprint up to 30 times size of l...
The satellite internet services provided by SpaceX Starlink, Eutelsat OneWeb or Amazon Kuiper will c...
Nobel prize for chemistry goes to trio behind quan...
The tiny crystals, only a few nanometres in size, have applications in computing, lasers and microsc...
Invasive beetle could threaten Ecuador’s eucalyptu...
The arrival of the eucalyptus snout beetle threatens the country’s eucalyptus trees – but they thems...
Hip pain linked to a dozen genetic variants
In a study of more than 220,000 people, 12 genetic variants were strongly associated with hip pain, ...
Fat Bear Week: How Alaska's brown bears nearly dou...
Brown bears in Katmai National Park can eat up to 160,000 calories a day to prepare for winter, but ...
