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US stops endorsing covid-19 shots for kids – are o...
When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy...
Could we build space-time computers that run on gr...
New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating s...
Women find other women’s faces even more attractiv...
Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit thi...
Japan's Resilience moon lander has crashed into th...
An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispac...
We may have discovered the first-ever stars powere...
Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hi...
The best new science fiction books of June 2025
June’s sci-fi hot tips feature a sleep-killing neural chip from Laura Elliott, plus Will Carver's vi...
Taurine may not be a key driver of ageing after al...
Taurine supplements have previously been found to extend the lifespan of monkeys and mice, but a new...
Retinal implant restores sight for blind mice
Metallic nanoparticles injected into the retina partly restored vision in blind mice and could work ...
Fusion power may never happen if we don't fix the ...
Nuclear fusion power will probably require vast quantities of enriched lithium – but we aren’t makin...
We've figured out how our brains sort imagination ...
Two brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we are seeing something real, or merely...
Worms team up to form tentacles when they want to ...
Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large ga...
Ancient humans evolved to be better teachers as te...
As our ancestors developed more advanced tools and cultural practices, they also developed new ways ...
The bizarre story of a maths proof that is only tr...
A 500-page proof that only a handful of people in the world claim to understand kicked off a saga un...
Is ADHD on the rise? No – but that answer doesn't ...
Despite reports of a recent surge in ADHD, a global analysis has found no reliable evidence of an in...
Dead Sea Scrolls analysis may force rethink of anc...
Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea S...
Why avoiding a sixth mass extinction is easier tha...
Putting an end to a mass extinction sounds like an impossible task, but some researchers argue that ...
Rivers are leaking ancient carbon back into the at...
Carbon stored in landscapes for thousands of years is leaching back into the atmosphere via rivers, ...
Massaging the neck and face may help flush waste o...
The glymphatic system flushes out waste products from the brain – now scientists have found a way to...
