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Lunar missions may contaminate the moon with hardy...
Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several da...
The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000...
For at least 10,000 years, humans across South-East Asia were being carefully preserved after death ...
Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won't be...
The UK government has announced a raft of tiny nuclear power projects, while Russia, China and a hos...
Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than ...
While Mars today only has a wispy remnant of an atmosphere, it may once have had one hundreds of tim...
What it’s like to run the world’s best dark matter...
Chamkaur Ghag is on a mission to find the 85 per cent of the universe’s matter that we haven’t yet i...
Covid-19 vaccine benefits worth up to $38 trillion...
The global health and economic benefits of covid-19 vaccines came to between $5 trillion and $38 tri...
Stealth radio hides signal in background noise to ...
As drones have risen to prominence on the battlefield, so too has electronic warfare, in which adver...
The death of dinosaurs dramatically re-engineered ...
Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may ...
Higher dose of Wegovy ups both weight loss and sid...
Trial participants who received an increased weekly dose of Wegovy lost 19 per cent of their body we...
Jaguar breaks records by swimming at least 1.3 kil...
A 1.3-kilometre swim by a jaguar is the longest ever confirmed, but the cat's motives for making the...
Child obesity is now more common than undernutriti...
Childhood obesity rates have surpassed those of undernutrition for the first time, suggesting effort...
Hedonistic habits could turn you into a mosquito m...
A study of festivalgoers suggests that drinking beer and sharing a bed makes you more attractive to ...
Jupiter is smaller and more squashed than we thoug...
The gas giant has been measured for the first time in decades, trimming 8 kilometres from its diamet...
A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we k...
Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcan...
Early Neanderthals hunted ibex on steep mountain s...
Ancient remains from a cave in Serbia show that Neanderthals were hunting mountain goats 300,000 yea...
Why simple tasks like charging your phone rely on ...
A hidden world of quantum metrologists ensure that everyday devices perform safely and correctly, bu...
Britain's economy thrived after the withdrawal of ...
An archaeological dig in northern England shows iron and lead processing continued and even increase...
Deflecting a deadly asteroid just got a lot less d...
Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we coul...
