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Diabetes drug metformin may cut the risk of long c...
Metformin, which is commonly used to control blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes, was ...
Losing a leg in youth changes how male harvestmen ...
Harvestmen can shed legs when attacked by predators, but this survival tactic may have lifelong rami...
Astronomers are using a new supernova to search fo...
If any alien civilisations have spotted the new supernova SN 2023ixf in the Pinwheel galaxy, they ma...
Fire Weather review: Why Canada’s wildfires will o...
John Vaillant chronicles the most destructive fire in Canada’s history, and explores what lies ahead...
Has anyone really seen evidence of aliens visiting...
The hunt for extraterrestrial spacecraft has generally been scattered and disorganised, but now NASA...
Robotic dog spots invasive fire ant nests better t...
Robotic dogs do better than humans at identifying nests of invasive fire ants. The robots could be u...
Raw sewage floods UK rivers with faecal bacteria a...
Water samples from the river Ouseburn in Newcastle upon Tyne during a rainstorm reveal high levels o...
Extremely cold drop of helium can be levitated for...
A drop of very cold liquid helium can be made to float for an indefinitely long time using strong ma...
Ukraine Kakhovka dam explosion: Flooding is devast...
Thousands of people have been evacuated due to the breach of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine. In a brief...
Taurine supplements extend lifespan and health in ...
Mice had longer lives and monkeys stayed healthier as they aged when given taurine supplements
Sound-based quantum computers could be built using...
A chip-sized device can manipulate particles of sound in a way that mimics how particles of light ar...
See some of the images up for the Earth Photo 2023...
From a photograph of algae choking an Indian river to a shocking depiction of the wearing away of th...
Octopuses edit their own genetic code to adapt to ...
When the temperature drops, octopuses recode their RNA in thousands of places to alter the proteins ...
How long will the wildfire smoke last and is it ba...
Smoke from hundreds of wildfires burning in Canada has triggered air quality alerts across the north...
Turbulence on flights is getting worse because of ...
Climate data from 1979 to 2020 shows that clear air turbulence is occurring more frequently – a pred...
Why you shouldn't believe claims that there are 7 ...
Popular psychiatrist Daniel Amen says there are 7 subtypes of attention deficit hyperactivity disord...
We finally know what causes morning sickness durin...
A hormone called GDF15 has been identified as the cause of nausea and vomiting during pregnancy, whi...
Kīlauea volcano: Watch live footage of the eruptio...
The Kīlauea volcano in Hawaii has begun erupting, spewing volcanic gas and ash across the island
