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Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gathere...
DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, ...
Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are fly...
Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes w...
Our brains have their first thoughts surprisingly ...
By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly eve...
Autism and ADHD are on the rise due to widening di...
A study of 140,000 people suggests that a broadening of the diagnostic criteria for autism and ADHD ...
The secrets to keeping your brain sharp in old age...
Neurologist Emily Rogalski studies "superagers" – people in their 80s or 90s with unusually keen mem...
A quantum state that lasts forever may finally be ...
Defying the laws of thermodynamics, experiments are beginning to show that a quantum state that is f...
Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to ...
Hemiscyllium dudgeonae is the tenth recorded species of walking shark, which use their pectoral fins...
Autism may have two distinct subtypes that vary by...
Evidence is mounting that there are distinct subtypes of autism, and now, scientists have found that...
Arctic Ocean reaches tipping point that could be d...
Disappearing sea ice is letting more sunlight in the Arctic Ocean and boosting phytoplankton growth,...
Technology is changing our perspective on nature –...
Inspired by Ariel Waldman’s docuseries Life Unearthed, columnist Annalee Newitz explores how microsc...
Has the answer to life's origins been hiding in ou...
The surprising discovery of mysterious blobs inside our cells is revolutionising our understanding o...
Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside ...
IVF could be done inside the body using sperm that have been magnetised, allowing them to be directe...
The social media ban is an experiment – here’s how...
Scientists have long grappled with how to measure the effect of social media on children. Now, the U...
Inside the start-up aiming for a giant leap in rob...
Physical Intelligence is drawing on the broad knowledge of large language models to help robots unde...
Are useful and error-free quantum computers only t...
Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to...
We may have finally solved cosmology's chicken-or-...
Galaxies and their supermassive black holes evolve together, but which came first is an ongoing ques...
The relationship recession is even bigger for Gen ...
We know that members of Gen Z are less likely to be in a steady relationship than millennials were a...
Killer robots are here – we must finally decide wh...
We can no longer ignore the growing threat of fully autonomous weapons. The world must either act to...
