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We may finally know what a healthy gut microbiome ...
Our gut microbiome has a huge influence on our overall health, but we haven't been clear on the spec...
Inside the wild experiments physicists would do wi...
From a particle smasher encircling the moon to an “impossible” laser, five scientists reveal the exp...
Genetic trick to make mosquitoes malaria resistant...
The rollout of a type of genetic technology called a gene drive for tackling malaria could be edging...
Oldest evidence of fire-lighting comes from early ...
An excavation in Suffolk, UK, has uncovered pyrite and flint that appear to have been used by ancien...
What the evolution of tickling tells us about bein...
From bonobos and rats to tickling robots, research is finally cracking the secrets of why we’re tick...
Australia's social media ban faces challenges and ...
As Australian teenagers lose access to social media, observers say there are still many unknown ques...
Why we only recently discovered space is dark not ...
For centuries, Europeans thought that eternal daylight saturated the cosmos. The shift to a dark uni...
Did ancient humans start farming so they could dri...
New evidence suggests that alcohol was a surprisingly big motivator in our monumental transition fro...
Dinosaurs like Diplodocus may have been as colourf...
Skin fossils from a sauropod dinosaur examined with an electron microscope feature structures called...
2025 was chock full of exciting discoveries in hum...
From an incredible series of revelations about the ancient humans called Denisovans to surprising di...
The surprising longevity lessons from the world’s ...
Scientists were amazed to discover a 507-year-old clam that was already 100 in Shakespeare’s day, bu...
Pompeii building site reveals how the Romans made ...
Excavations of a workshop that was buried in Pompeii almost 2000 years ago have given archaeologists...
Timing cancer drug delivery around our body clock ...
The time of day that cancer drugs are administered could make a big difference to a patient's outcom...
The audacious quest to light up the sky with artif...
How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis...
We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random num...
From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of...
2025 is the second hottest year since records bega...
Mean temperatures this year approached 1.5°C above the preindustrial average, making it the second h...
Odd elements in supernova blast might have implica...
Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, h...
How worried should you be about spending too much ...
Screen time has been linked to all sorts of problems, from depression and obesity to poor sleep. But...
