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How soap operas can help us understand special rel...
Time scales in my favourite soap opera Emmerdale make no sense, but maybe this helps avid fans to no...
Reusable rocket built by students is about to laun...
The Karman Space Programme, set up by students at Imperial College London, will attempt to launch it...
Superglue alternative made from soya is strong but...
Most adhesives are made from fossil fuels and take thousands of years to biodegrade, but a new alter...
DNA-based computer can run 100 billion different p...
Mixing and matching various strands of DNA can create versatile biological computer circuits that ca...
Is CBD a wonder drug or waste of money? Here's wha...
Claims about the health benefits of cannabidiol have outpaced credible research, but CBD does show s...
The earliest black holes seen by JWST appear to be...
Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest supermassive black holes from the early unive...
Male cockatoos make customised drumsticks for thei...
Palm cockatoos fashion sticks for drumming on trees by snapping off branches and whittling them with...
Disinformation wars: The fight against fake news i...
Researchers and governments are finally battling back against the deluge of false information online...
Could we tweak the solar system to make Pluto a pl...
Pluto officially lost its planethood in 2006, and this episode of Dead Planets Society is all about ...
English rivers regularly pumped full of oxygen to ...
In the past five years, there have been almost 100 cases of the UK's Environment Agency deploying em...
Can massive solar power expansion regenerate the U...
Renewable energy development is transforming the US countryside. It could be a chance to restore the...
How to spot green comet Nishimura in the skies thi...
Comet Nishimura, which was discovered just a month ago, is about to make its closest approach to the...
Mental health 'first aid' training has no clear me...
A review of the Mental Health First Aid programme, which trains members of the public to support peo...
Smart toilets could leak your medical data, warn s...
Toilets that collect health data could be hacked to reveal extremely sensitive information and shoul...
The universe’s evolution seems to be slowing and w...
The development of cosmic structure – the huge strands of galaxies and caverns of emptiness that mak...
Seven healthy lifestyle activities may massively c...
An analysis of more than 200,000 people found that living a healthy lifestyle that includes things l...
Red imported fire ants with painful bites have tak...
Already a serious invasive species in the US and Australia, red imported fire ant nests have now bee...
