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Dusting and vacuuming reduce wildfire air pollutio...
Pollutants from wildfire smoke can remain inside homes for weeks, but vacuuming, mopping and dusting...
Furry-clawed Chinese mitten crabs are spreading ac...
Numbers of invasive Chinese mitten crabs are believed to be growing in the UK, causing damage to riv...
Israel's demand for Gaza evacuation will lead to d...
As part of its ongoing conflict with Hamas, Israel has issued a warning for 1.1 million people to le...
Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without ...
Ukraine is using drones equipped with artificial intelligence that can identify and attack targets w...
Win $13k by rediscovering the secret phrases that ...
Five secret phrases used to create the encryption algorithms that secure everything from online bank...
AI is helping mathematicians build a periodic tabl...
Atomic shapes are so simple that they can't be broken down any further. Mathematicians are trying to...
Lessons in Chemistry review: TV show delivers – ju...
When Lessons in Chemistry, the story of a woman scientist frustrated by the times she lives in, fina...
Early humans lived in Ethiopian highlands 2 millio...
A child’s jawbone found in Ethiopia is one of the earliest fossils identified as Homo erectus, and s...
We now have the most detailed description of the h...
The tool, which charts the distribution of over a hundred different brain areas in genetic and cellu...
Energy-efficient transistor could allow smartwatch...
A prototype transistor built from molybdenum disulphide and carbon nanotubes rather than silicon cou...
Simple blood test tweak could make intensive care ...
Taking less blood for intensive care tests reduces the risk of transfusions, which can cause allergi...
We could make roads on the moon by melting lunar d...
Lunar dust can be melted with a laser to make a strong, glassy material – and a similar effect could...
Neanderthals hunted cave lions with spears and mad...
Fossilised remains of extinct big cats called cave lions display evidence of butchery, showing that ...
Inventions based on threatened animals like rhinos...
An analysis of patent records suggests there is growing commercial interest in products derived from...
Toys produce far more electronic waste than vapes
Over 3 billion kilograms of valuable electronics inside children’s toys are thrown away each year, a...
Samples from asteroid Bennu contain the key ingred...
The asteroid Bennu was sampled by NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex mission, which returned to Earth last month. Res...
Earth’s core is oddly squishy and we may now know ...
Earth’s iron-rich inner core may owe some of its surprising softness to the motion of atoms, suggest...
Two giant planets collided and vaporised in a dist...
A star behaving strangely was the first clue that astronomers were witnessing two Neptune-sized plan...
