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How ultrasound therapy could treat everything from...
Ultrasound is most familiar to us as a non-invasive imaging technology used during pregnancy – now i...
Fastest star in the galaxy clocked at 2285 kilomet...
Astronomers have spotted white dwarfs moving faster than any free-moving star seen before – so fast ...
Are big cats like black panthers and leopards real...
Despite numerous people claiming to have seen big cats in the UK, there is no hard evidence they exi...
Male harbour seals may learn vocalisations years b...
Male harbour seals use vocalisations to woo females and they appear to learn these songs years befor...
Extinct lizard was a bizarrely supersized version ...
Tiliqua frangens, a giant, armoured skink that lived over 40,000 years ago, is the latest bizarre me...
Flies die sooner if they see dead flies
Genetic experiments have identified a small group of neurons in the brain of fruit flies that respon...
Fossils in Laos cave imply modern humans were in A...
Human skull and shinbone fragments found in a cave in northern Laos suggest modern humans may have b...
What the huge young galaxies seen by JWST tell us ...
A few months ago, the James Webb Space Telescope spotted six early galaxies that were so large they ...
Dehorning may affect how rhinos interact and estab...
Black rhinos are commonly dehorned to prevent poaching, but monitoring data suggests the practice ma...
Air quality: How does pollution affect your health...
Recent research is revealing how air pollution damages many parts of the body, who is most at risk a...
Microbe map reveals how hundreds of insects got th...
The microbes that insects harbour may have played a key role in shaping the diets and driving the di...
You can learn foreign words as you sleep but it wo...
People who were played fake translations in their sleep could recall which category of words they be...
North Atlantic Ocean has reached record-high surfa...
Clouds of dust blown from the Sahara desert generally have a cooling effect on the North Atlantic, b...
Genetically engineered gut bacterium could protect...
The fungal parasite Nosema is deadly to honeybee colonies and evolving resistance to fungicides, but...
Zebrafish produce sunscreen to protect their embry...
Zebrafish eggs contain a compound called gadusol that acts as a sunscreen to protect the developing ...
The unique, vanishing languages that hold secrets ...
Language isolates, like Chimané from Bolivia, are unrelated to any other known tongue. Studying them...
Fast-growing galaxy seen by JWST offers window on ...
A galaxy seen 700 million years after the big bang appears surprisingly mature, suggesting some pock...
Life-extending parasite makes ants live at least t...
Ants infected by the parasite don't work, are cared for by uninfected workers and live much longer t...
