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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...
Spotting the way octopus stripes vary could help u...
The configuration of brown and white stripes in pygmy zebra octopuses (Octopus chierchiae) varies be...
Legal marijuana in the US may be less potent than ...
Tests of marijuana sold legally in Colorado found that most products contained significantly less TH...
Bone fragment reveals humans wore leather clothes ...
A study of an ancient bone from Spain with a strange pattern of notches hints that it was used by ea...
Incandescent lamp could save energy by recycling i...
A lighting device that reuses its infrared light to conserve energy is as efficient as some LED ligh...
Skates evolved their undulating wings thanks to ge...
The front fins of skates emerge from their heads as huge wings and now we know how they can develop ...
Male orchid bees craft unique perfumes from flower...
The function of the mysterious perfume blended by male orchid bees from the flowers they visit has f...
