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Will burying dead trees after a wildfire keep thei...
Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US star...
3 things you need to know about quantum computers,...
What use is a quantum computer? Perhaps both more and less than you think, according to quantum comp...
Melting of Greenland ice sheet could release large...
Seismic surveys and sediment cores suggest that dozens of deep pockmarks on the sea floor were creat...
Neanderthals treated a dental cavity by drilling i...
A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that t...
Arctic fires are releasing carbon stored for thous...
A study of soils around the Arctic and boreal forests has found that some wildfires are releasing ca...
Asteroid to miss Earth by a quarter of the length ...
Asteroid 2026JH2 will zoom past Earth at a distance of only 90,000 kilometres next week. It has enou...
Why autism pioneer Uta Frith wants to dismantle th...
After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in h...
Ancient teeth hint at links between Denisovans and...
Six teeth roughly 400,000 years old have yielded some of the first ancient proteins thought to belon...
Natural sunscreen found in fish eggs can be made b...
Genetically altered bacteria can synthesise gadusol, a naturally occurring compound found in zebrafi...
New rules confirm public has a right to see how UK...
Government departments and other public bodies in the UK must consider requests to release informati...
Can cloud seeding save us from water bankruptcy?
We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are ...
Carbon credits are flawed, but they can still help...
Carbon credits bought by companies to offset their emissions really have reduced deforestation, but ...
PCOS has been officially renamed PMOS, and it’s a ...
PCOS will now be known as PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), and for Alice Klein, who ...
A new tectonic plate boundary could be forming in ...
Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come...
The story of the first human tool: the humble cont...
An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may hav...
Can floating data centres meet AI's huge energy de...
A US start-up is putting autonomous data centres in the ocean, powered by wave energy, but experts w...
Where did the laws of physics come from? I think I...
The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João ...
Huge study of ancient British DNA reveals only min...
Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest hig...
