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Plant-based waterproof material could replace sing...
Cellulose, the main component of paper, can be turned into clear, waterproof objects such as cups th...
What politicians so often get wrong about science
Governments love asking what scientific research will bring society, but the most important discover...
What the surprising lives of solitary animals reve...
A new understanding of why some animals evolved to be loners, and the benefits that brings, shows th...
Can Amazon's soon-to-launch Kuiper satellites riva...
Amazon is aiming to launch its first operational satellites today to provide speedy internet connect...
Largest mammalian brain map ever could unpick what...
A map of part of a mouse brain, which is expected to be generalisable to people, could help scientis...
Arabia has been green for long spells in the past ...
Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia’s past, which might have given early ...
Light-based computers are getting close to a comme...
Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy...
Space could emerge from time
An investigation of the changing behaviour of a single quantum bit through time has uncovered a tant...
The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European langu...
It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywher...
Ancient rocks boost case for mini ice age linked t...
Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusu...
How to make great coffee with fewer beans, accordi...
Physicists have determined that the ideal technique for pour-over coffee can use up to 10 per cent f...
Rethink of fossils hints dinosaurs still thrived b...
The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that speci...
What the new science of magic reveals about percep...
Magicians have long exploited quirks in our perception of the world to make us experience the imposs...
Smell-seeking drone uses moth antenna to follow a ...
A moth antenna can be integrated into the electronics of a drone to create a smell-seeking bio-hybri...
Blood test predicts preeclampsia risk using RNA
A blood test can accurately predict whether someone without a known risk of preeclampsia is likely t...
How long is a day on Uranus? Slightly longer than ...
Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer t...
Trees capture toxic fingerprint of gold mining in ...
Mercury pollution accumulating in trees could offer a new way to monitor destructive gold mining ope...
No, the dire wolf has not been brought back from e...
Colossal Biosciences claims three pups born recently are dire wolves, but they are actually grey wol...
