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Category: Science
Doomsday glacier in Antarctica is coming lose and may b...
Antarctica's Thwaites glacier could break free of the continent within 10 years, which could lead to catastrophic sea level rise a...
Will paused Cambo oil plans mark the decline of North S...
Investors have pulled out of a project to drill the Cambo oil field in the UK North Sea. Does this mark the end of new oil and gas...
Why won't the West embrace Russia’s highly effective co...
Scepticism in Western countries around Russia’s vaccine reflects politics not science – the Sputnik V vaccine has the highest prot...
Watch a robot playing table tennis after just 90 minute...
A robot arm controlled by an algorithm can play table tennis against human players after a short training session using both a vir...
Babies bond better with strangers when they can smell t...
Maternal body odour signals to babies that they can safely build relationships with other adults, a trait that may have evolved so...
Destructive pest moth stripped of sex appeal by gene ed...
Female beet armyworms with a deleted gene don’t produce sex pheromones, which could be exploited as a way to control numbers of th...
Monster cloud of plasma spotted spewing out of a distan...
A coronal mass ejection from the star EK Draconis was 10 times larger than any we have seen on our own sun
High-tech space sleeping bag could stop vision problems...
Long spells in microgravity can alter eyeball shape, but a sleeping bag that applies suction to the lower body could prevent such ...
We failed to prevent omicron – can we stop future varia...
There is a lot more that countries could be doing to reduce the risk of new coronavirus variants arising, but it won't be easy
DeepMind AI helps study strange electrons in chemical r...
Strange so-called fractional electrons are crucial to many chemical reactions, but traditional methods cannot model them – a probl...
Tropical forests can regrow within 20 years on some aba...
In the tropics, trees are cleared to make way for farmland that is abandoned once the soil is no longer productive – but these sit...
Hormone replacement therapy doesn't increase risk of dy...
A study of 300,000 people shows that HRT for menopause symptoms doesn't increase the risk of early death, helping to overturn outd...