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The mystery of highly reactive oxygen has finally ...
Singlet oxygen can be damaging in both cells and batteries but it has taken almost 60 years to work ...
'We're precipitating an extermination rather than ...
Broadcaster and campaigner Chris Packham is on a mission to cut overconsumption, take on fossil fuel...
NASA's asteroid deflection test had unexpected and...
The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions re...
How brain organoids are revealing what truly makes...
Madeline Lancaster created the first brain organoids, which have revolutionised our understanding of...
The best new science fiction books of October 2025...
Science fiction legend Ursula K. Le Guin is honoured with a new collection out this month, and sci-f...
We now know why a belly button becomes an 'innie'
Scientists have discovered a new abdominal structure called the umbilical sheath, which anchors the ...
Egg cells made with DNA from human skin fertilised...
An innovative use of skin cells could provide a route for gay couples or women with fertility proble...
'Funny' videos of stressed and frightened pets are...
Social media is awash with videos of cats and dogs getting startled or hurt for our entertainment. W...
Ancient artists created giant camel engravings in ...
Almost 200 engravings created around 12,000 years ago have been discovered in Saudi Arabia, includin...
The exceptionally tasty new fermented foods being ...
Fermented foods make up a third of what we eat and were mostly discovered by accident centuries ago....
Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s b...
The black hole at the centre of a galaxy more than 50 million light years away is spewing out a jet ...
We may finally know what causes will-o’-the-wisps
Mysterious flashes of light seen in swamps and bogs could be caused by burning methane or other gase...
Our brain 'swivels' to focus on sounds from differ...
Many mammals physically pivot their ears to hone in on a particular sound, and now it seems that a s...
Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we rea...
Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now ...
Cannabis extract found to be effective for lower b...
A clinical trial has found that VER-01, a drug derived from cannabis, eases chronic lower back pain ...
The most important mathematician you’ve (probably)...
Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution i...
Ultracold clocks could reveal how quantum physics ...
The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that woul...
Extraordinary pictures show what a common antibiot...
A commonly used class of antibiotics seems to kill bacteria like E. coli by breaking down their toug...
