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Tentacle robot can bend through pipes and unscrew ...
A soft, tubular robot can bend, twist, expand and contract when exposed to different intensities of ...
Heart chambers 3D printed from live human cells ca...
A new technique enables 3D printing of miniature heart chambers called ventricles that can beat on t...
Mark Rylance play: Who was Dr Semmelweis and what ...
New Scientist talks to actor Mark Rylance, writer Stephen Brown and director Tom Morris about their ...
River Thames was pumped full of oxygen in 2022 to ...
Falling oxygen levels caused by sewage and hot weather saw a specialised boat deployed for 11 days i...
Endangered butterflies are being sold for high pri...
More than 50,000 dead butterflies were traded on eBay in a one-year period, including endangered spe...
Odd gamma ray burst may be from a smash-up between...
Astronomers have found a blast of gamma rays from space that seems to have been caused by two stella...
Clever design makes sticky tape that's strong but ...
A ‘shocklingly simple’ design based on kirigami, the Japanese art of paper cutting, makes sticky tap...
Which quantum computer is the most powerful ever? ...
IonQ has become the latest company to claim its quantum computer is more powerful than any other com...
Knee brace may help torn anterior cruciate ligamen...
In a study involving 80 people with ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments, 90 per cent had signs of h...
Centre of our galaxy has a 'zone of avoidance' and...
The stars that orbit close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole are already tough to explain –...
The Milky Way could contain thousands of stars fro...
We know there are stars moving fast enough to escape the Milky Way, so the same is probably true of ...
Monarch butterflies' big white spots help them fly...
The big white spots seen on the wings of migratory monarch butterflies may have evolved to help them...
Finger marks on cave walls are among the earliest ...
Symbols have been found carved on the walls of a cave in France that was inhabited by Neanderthals b...
Microsoft says its weird new particle could improv...
Researchers at Microsoft say they have created elusive quasiparticles called Majorana zero modes – b...
Hunter-gatherers in Tanzania have incredibly diver...
The huge diversity of the gut microbiome of Hadza hunter-gatherers from Tanzania hints at how indust...
Tumour-dwelling microbes: A startling new frontier...
New research shows that tumours are home to a rich ecosystem of bacteria and fungi that influence ca...
Ultra-fast boxing robots could be used for real-li...
Robots that respond to a person's movements in a fraction of a second could be used for a real-life ...
Love + Science review: Reflecting on the rise of H...
Two gay medical students attempt to navigate the AIDS crisis – and their own love – in David Glass’s...
