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Why birds decorate their nests with weird and unna...
Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there i...
We assume women are morally superior to men – and ...
Women seem to be judged as being more moral than men, which could mean they have further to fall if ...
Flash floods sweep through vital sanctuary for Aus...
Wildlife carers fostering some of Australia’s most precious animals have had to rescue them one by o...
New dwarf planet spotted at the edge of the solar ...
The unusual orbit of a possible dwarf planet, known as 2017 OF201, makes it less likely that our sol...
Ultracold atoms have been 'hyperentangled' for the...
By exerting unprecedented control over extremely cold atoms, researchers have put them in a state wi...
Giant ground sloths evolved three different times ...
An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigan...
Special contact lenses let you see infrared light ...
Nanoparticle-infused contact lenses can transform infrared radiation into different colours of visib...
Penguin poo helps keep Antarctica cool
Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which boosts particles in the atm...
Colossal scientist now admits they haven’t really ...
Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct d...
Giant boulder on clifftop in Tonga was carried by ...
A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inlan...
Honeybees are getting confused by electric polluti...
Airborne electric fields similar to those from nearby power lines seem to have a dramatic effect on ...
How to boost your brain power just by changing how...
We mostly breathe subconsciously, but columnist Helen Thomson finds evidence that the brain function...
Extra cancer screening could help pick up early ca...
Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to thi...
Why taping your mouth shut at night probably isn't...
Social media is awash with videos claiming that taping your mouth closed will improve your sleep – b...
Why the climate crown is ready for China to take –...
With the US in retreat from climate negotiations, China's Xi Jinping could become the next green glo...
Vagus nerve stimulation shows promise for spinal c...
People with incomplete cervical spinal cord injuries showed improvements to their hand and arm movem...
The first teeth were sensory organs on the skin of...
Teeth are good for chewing and biting, but they are also sensitive – and that may have been their or...
Weird planet is orbiting backwards between two sta...
After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd pla...
