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World’s oldest cold virus found in 18th-century wo...
Finding rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, in preserved medical specimens and analysing thei...
Huge hot blobs inside Earth may have made its magn...
Simulations suggest that two enormous masses of hot rock have been involved in generating Earth’s ma...
Accidental discovery hints at mystery structures w...
Scientists may have stumbled across a network of vessels in the brain that helps clear out waste flu...
CAR T-cell therapy may slow neurodegenerative cond...
Immune cells in the brain that go rogue contribute to the death of neurons, so getting rid of them m...
Why self-expansion is the key to long-lasting love...
A growing body of psychological research shows that the best relationships – romantic or otherwise –...
RNA strand that can almost self-replicate may be k...
Life may have begun when RNA molecules began to replicate themselves, and now we’ve finally found an...
Weird inside-out planet system may have formed one...
The planets around a nearby star seem to be in the wrong order, hinting that they formed through a d...
Endurance brain cells may determine how long you c...
The activity of certain neurons may influence our endurance for exercise, and these could be targete...
Gene editing that spreads within the body could cu...
The idea of self-amplifying gene editing is to get cells to pass on packages of CRISPR machinery to ...
Royal Navy returns to wind power with trial of rob...
A fleet of wind-propelled robot boats could act as a sensor network covering a wide area and relay a...
Nepal and Northern India are not overdue for a hug...
Many researchers thought that earthquakes in the Himalayas recur at regular intervals – but an analy...
Ancient Peruvian civilisation grew mighty by harve...
The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to valleys as early as the 13th ...
Putting a price tag on nature failed. Can radical ...
Biologists have long thought that speaking to nature’s economic value would persuade boardrooms it w...
The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age imm...
About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pot...
First ever inhalable gene therapy for cancer gets ...
A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-bo...
This state’s power prices are plummeting as it nea...
South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery b...
Newborn marsupials seen crawling to mother's pouch...
Scientists have captured remarkable footage of the young of a mouse-sized marsupial, called a fat-ta...
Which humans first made tools or art – and how do ...
Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don...
