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Ancient Mars may have had a liquid ocean despite freezing temperatures

Ancient Mars may have had a liquid ocean despite f...

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Unknown voices spark more brain activity in sleep than familiar ones

Unknown voices spark more brain activity in sleep ...

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Ozone pollution causes $63 billion damage per year to East Asian crops

Ozone pollution causes $63 billion damage per year...

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Edible straws made by bacteria are better than paper or plastic ones

Edible straws made by bacteria are better than pap...

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Covid-19 news: Falling cases in UK suggests omicron wave has peaked

Covid-19 news: Falling cases in UK suggests omicro...

1 year ago 195

Volcano eruption in Tonga was a once-in-a-millennium event

Volcano eruption in Tonga was a once-in-a-millenni...

1 year ago 191

Hybrid animal in 4500-year-old tomb is earliest known bred by humans

Hybrid animal in 4500-year-old tomb is earliest kn...

1 year ago 185

Portable laser scanner creates colour 3D images of surfaces or objects

Portable laser scanner creates colour 3D images of...

1 year ago 187

Flu vaccines during pregnancy protect babies for 6 months after birth

Flu vaccines during pregnancy protect babies for 6...

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UK energy crisis: Why renewable subsidies will help avoid price shocks

UK energy crisis: Why renewable subsidies will hel...

1 year ago 185

Why omicron isn't more severe in kids despite rise in hospitalisations

Why omicron isn't more severe in kids despite rise...

1 year ago 186

Covid-19 news: Wales rows back omicron restrictions as cases fall

Covid-19 news: Wales rows back omicron restriction...

1 year ago 188

Robot piloted by a ball of algae is powered by photosynthesis

Robot piloted by a ball of algae is powered by pho...

1 year ago 197

'Doomsday' shipwreck exposed by New Scientist finally being made safe

'Doomsday' shipwreck exposed by New Scientist fina...

1 year ago 190

Strongest evidence yet that MS is caused by Epstein-Barr virus

Strongest evidence yet that MS is caused by Epstei...

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Animal decline is hurting plants' ability to adapt to climate change

Animal decline is hurting plants' ability to adapt...

1 year ago 190

Organic compounds on Mars were produced by water and rocks, not life

Organic compounds on Mars were produced by water a...

1 year ago 198

What endemic means - and why covid-19 is nowhere near it yet

What endemic means - and why covid-19 is nowhere n...

1 year ago 194

The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by huge sinking rocks

The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by...

1 year ago 186

Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs under Antarctic ice

Largest ever fish colony hosts 100 billion eggs un...

1 year ago 192

Can electric fields help plants grow? New claims met with caution

Can electric fields help plants grow? New claims m...

1 year ago 186

Covid-19 news: Self-isolation period cut to 5 days in England

Covid-19 news: Self-isolation period cut to 5 days...

1 year ago 188

Fix the Planet newsletter: The race to replace meat

Fix the Planet newsletter: The race to replace mea...

1 year ago 194

Electric knee implants could help treat pain of osteoarthritis

Electric knee implants could help treat pain of os...

1 year ago 185

AI makes it possible to simulate 25 billion water molecules at once

AI makes it possible to simulate 25 billion water ...

1 year ago 175

Huge gas bubble that contains the solar system mapped for first time

Huge gas bubble that contains the solar system map...

1 year ago 177

The Large Hadron Collider blips that could herald a new era of physics

The Large Hadron Collider blips that could herald ...

1 year ago 192

How bacteria-killing viruses are being used to keep food safe

How bacteria-killing viruses are being used to kee...

1 year ago 189

Covid-19 news: Pandemic rapidly moving towards endemicity, says EMA

Covid-19 news: Pandemic rapidly moving towards end...

1 year ago 188

These are the games to look out for in 2022

These are the games to look out for in 2022

1 year ago 177

Unusual anglerfish glows with bioluminescent and fluorescent light

Unusual anglerfish glows with bioluminescent and f...

1 year ago 192

Ancient Andean leaders may have mixed hallucinogen with their beer

Ancient Andean leaders may have mixed hallucinogen...

1 year ago 192

Watch the best ever simulation of stars being born in a cosmic cloud

Watch the best ever simulation of stars being born...

1 year ago 187

Overloaded memory chips generate truly random numbers for encryption

Overloaded memory chips generate truly random numb...

1 year ago 198

How a pig heart was transplanted into a human for the first time

How a pig heart was transplanted into a human for ...

1 year ago 182

Saturn’s small moon Mimas may be hiding an impossible ocean

Saturn’s small moon Mimas may be hiding an impossi...

1 year ago 178

Covid-19 news: Majority of people in Europe will soon catch omicron

Covid-19 news: Majority of people in Europe will s...

1 year ago 190

A West African writing system shows how letters evolve to get simpler

A West African writing system shows how letters ev...

1 year ago 181

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million years ago

Ancient humans may have started hunting 2 million ...

1 year ago 184

Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving at incredible speeds

Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving a...

1 year ago 181

Fungi that live on eucalyptus roots can control trees' gene activity

Fungi that live on eucalyptus roots can control tr...

1 year ago 209

Corkscrew-shaped robot swims through blood vessels to clear blockages

Corkscrew-shaped robot swims through blood vessels...

1 year ago 175

What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitoris

What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the cl...

1 year ago 187

Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first with a bandaged wound

Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first wi...

1 year ago 169

Outsider wins DARPA challenge to predict where floats drift at sea

Outsider wins DARPA challenge to predict where flo...

1 year ago 169

Covid-19 news: Ministers plan for UK to ‘live with covid’

Covid-19 news: Ministers plan for UK to ‘live with...

1 year ago 181

Covid-19 testing in the time of omicron: Everything you need to know

Covid-19 testing in the time of omicron: Everythin...

1 year ago 174

James Webb Space Telescope has finished unfolding its massive mirror

James Webb Space Telescope has finished unfolding ...

1 year ago 201

UK’s largest ichthyosaur fossil was a 10-metre-long apex predator

UK’s largest ichthyosaur fossil was a 10-metre-lon...

1 year ago 184

Spider fossil sheds light on Australia’s ancient rainforest ecosystem

Spider fossil sheds light on Australia’s ancient r...

1 year ago 178