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How to watch the Lyrids meteor shower between 15 a...
You have a decent chance of seeing shooting stars from anywhere in the world on 19 April and during ...
AI can tell if you are sleep deprived by listening...
An artificial intelligence can detect if people have had at least 7 hours of sleep or just 3 hours w...
World's first drilling project to seek natural hyd...
A well in Nebraska is the first in the world to have been drilled in search of naturally occurring g...
Why expanding access to Narcan in the US won’t sol...
The US has made a medication that rapidly reverses opioid overdoses available without prescription –...
Two brain pathways identified that govern the urge...
Two distinct groups of neurons underlie different types of itching sensations in mice, and both work...
JUICE livestream: Watch the launch of ESA’s missio...
The JUICE mission to explore three of Jupiter’s icy moons and examine whether they have the right co...
Giant invasive rodents could make California’s flo...
The state of California is trying to eradicate invasive populations of South American nutria, whose ...
Physics confirms the best way to make a playground...
If you’ve been on a playground swing, you may intuitively know when to lean back to get it going hig...
Can we ever know who invented the wheel?
Some of the most important inventions – wheels, nets and the written word – have creators lost to ti...
Test showing if sperm can puncture an egg may guid...
Seeing whether sperm is capable of puncturing, and ultimately fertilising, an egg would help people ...
Ghana is the first country to approve highly effec...
A malaria vaccine that is 77 per cent effective in clinical trials has been approved for use in chil...
Early break-up of eastern African forests shaped o...
Forests in eastern Africa started turning into grassland 10 million years earlier than previously th...
Europe to become a hotspot for flash droughts caus...
The warming climate is causing soils to lose their moisture more quickly, resulting in damaging, rap...
Florida floods: How much rain has fallen and could...
Heavy rain has deluged parts of Florida, triggering the total shutdown of Fort Lauderdale airport. H...
Swapping table salt for a potassium alternative cu...
A study in care homes found that preparing meals with potassium-enriched salt, instead of regular sa...
Tadpole embryos grow strong jaws if they sense shr...
Mexican spadefoot toad embryos that sense lots of shrimp in the water before they are born grow bigg...
Some anacondas can perform a strange S-shaped leap...
A mathematical model based on observing yellow anacondas in the lab shows that if they are light and...
Wine experts’ unique nasal microbiome may affect t...
People who work in the wine industry may have fewer and less diverse bacteria in their nose compared...
