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Spine of early crawling fish was becoming more lik...

Scans show that the spine and ribs of Tiktaalik, one of the first fish to crawl on land, had feature...

A weird comet is travelling through space with a d...

Comet 108P/Ciffreo was spotted in 1985 hurtling through space alongside a strange blob of dust, and ...

Travellers to Unimaginable Lands review: The true ...

In a wise and challenging book, Dasha Kiper focuses on the forgotten people caring for those living ...

Turtles stranded on UK beaches after storms send t...

Fifteen turtles have been stranded in the UK and Ireland since November, a high number attributed to...

How AI chatbots in search engines will completely ...

Moves by Google, Microsoft and Baidu to bring AI chatbots into their search engines may bring big ad...

Green home designs put to the test in giant climat...

Roof-mounted heat pumps and heat-harvesting showers are among the green home technologies being put ...

Why chocolate cravings strike a week or two before...

Craving chocolate and other sweet foods in the lead up to a period has been linked to higher levels ...

Rise in US gun sales during the pandemic linked to...

People in the US who purchased a gun during the pandemic were more likely to support extreme politic...

US will catalogue unidentified flying objects, say...

US president Joe Biden has spoken publicly for the first time about the objects recently shot out of...

Prawn larvae conceal their eyes with reflectors to...

To hide from predators, the larvae of some crustaceans camouflage their dark eyes with photonic glas...

Strange water wave can bounce a droplet thousands ...

A single undulating wave can bounce a droplet of water up and down for up to an hour and a half. Res...

Covid-19 pandemic linked to antibiotic resistance ...

A modelling study suggests that the proportion of cases involving pneumonia-causing bacteria that ar...

Marburg virus: What you need to know about the dis...

The deadly Marburg virus has been detected in Equatorial Guinea and neighbouring Cameroon, and the W...

Ohio chemical spill: What could have caused the tr...

After a train carrying hazardous chemicals partially derailed and set fire in Ohio on 3 February, qu...

Plants are receding up mountains faster than thoug...

From Mexico to Canada, mountain plants are moving upslope to cooler elevations. In some mountain ran...

Plants are spreading up mountains faster than thou...