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Gold flakes glow when they are bathed in light and...
Shooting powerful lasers at thin gold flakes has revealed how the precious metal generates its own f...
ADHD linked to disrupted brain signals involved in...
Disrupted brain signals have previously been linked to ADHD in children, with the link now being fou...
AI voices are hard to spot even if you know audio ...
Deepfake audio can trick people even when they know they might be hearing an AI-generated voice – AI...
Ancient whale might have been the heaviest animal ...
A whale that lived around 39 million years ago could have weighed as much as 340 tonnes, according t...
Chemical reaction used in cooking may have helped ...
The Maillard reaction, which generates flavoursome compounds during cooking, probably helps lock car...
Gene variant that seems to protect against HIV may...
A different form of a gene called CHD1L found in people with African ancestry has been linked to low...
Does space-time remember? The search for gravitati...
Detecting the permanent imprints left by colliding black holes would reveal a universe saturated wit...
Scientists race to test claimed room-temperature s...
Researchers are moving quickly to test if a material called LK-99 really is a superconductor at room...
Your gut microbiome is linked to your fitness and ...
Altering the gut microbiome via probiotics could one day help people to maintain a certain level of ...
Artificial spider silk could help us harvest drink...
Helical bumps on artificial fibres can carry 2000 times more water than the volume of the bumps them...
Ancient Babylonian arson in Jerusalem revealed by ...
By analysing charred remains of a Jerusalem building, archaeologists have uncovered details of how i...
Oldest adult jellyfish fossil ever found is over 5...
A fossil discovered in Canada reveals that jellyfish developed the swimming stage of their life cycl...
NASA has regained contact with Voyager 2 after los...
After accidentally turning the Voyager 2 spacecraft away from Earth and losing contact with it, NASA...
Lead exposure linked to higher risk of engaging in...
Higher exposure to lead in childhood is associated with a greater likelihood of criminality, a revie...
Earth's early warmth may be explained by methane-m...
A chemical process that produces methane without living organisms could have warmed up the young Ear...
Male moths make their own perfume from flowers to ...
Tobacco budworm moth males gather a sweet-smelling chemical from flowers and release it from hairy a...
Is it possible to drill a hole straight through a ...
Could we bore a hole through the centre of Earth? What would it be like to fling yourself through it...
The best new science fiction books of August 2023
From speculative novellas by Josh Malerman to a first venture into science fiction from H is for Haw...
