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Why has Virgin Orbit shut down and what will happe...
Virgin Orbit's failed launch in January was the start of the end for the company, which has now sold...
Astronomers race to observe rare supernova in a ne...
An exploding star spotted in the Pinwheel galaxy, 21 million light years from Earth, offers a rare c...
Do new Alzheimer's drugs signal the end of the con...
Antibody treatments that target amyloid plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer's have shown ...
Wild African primates have flame retardants in the...
Four primate species in Uganda have been found to have 97 chemical pollutants in their faeces, which...
Seagulls choose their meals based on what people n...
Given a choice between two crisp packets, herring gulls pick the same colour as one a nearby human i...
AI passed an advertising Turing test for the first...
AI-generated ads fooled marketing experts and outperformed typical US print ads on a test that measu...
Inside the fight for Europe's first wild river nat...
Albania's Vjosa river was due to be the site of a massive hydroelectric dam, with disastrous consequ...
Ethereum closed a big security hole with its energ...
At least one cryptocurrency based on the old version of Ethereum is still vulnerable to a software f...
Fundamental law of physics demonstrated using quan...
The principle of least action has been a key law of physics since the 18th century, but has only now...
Bat guano has been sculpting caves in Brazil for t...
Due to the corrosive effect of their faeces, bats have engineered larger caves in the iron-rich eart...
Naked mole rats' hyaluronic acid genes can give mi...
Naked mole rats’ secret to a long life is an abundance of hyaluronic acid, and new research shows th...
Rare plant turns carnivorous when it is low on a k...
The West African liana Triphyophyllum peltatum can grow special leaves that trap insects, but we now...
US states agree to use less from Colorado River to...
After months of negotiations, California, Nevada and Arizona have agreed to reduce the water they ta...
Ozone layer treaty pushed back ice-free Arctic sum...
A 1987 treaty to ban ozone-destroying gases helped delay the first Arctic summer with no ice, which ...
How talking to your future self can improve your h...
From meeting an older version of yourself in virtual reality to writing letters from the future, the...
Hundreds of species new to science discovered in S...
A WWF report catalogues a cornucopia of plants and animals newly identified in the Greater Mekong re...
Chronic pain linked to distinctive patterns of bra...
Better understanding the brain patterns linked to persistent pain could open the door to new treatme...
Covid-19 booster vaccines should leave out origina...
The first covid-19 vaccines were based on the spike protein from the original virus, but including t...
