Astrophysics

Kissing may have evolved in an ape ancestor 21 million ...

Rather than being a recent cultural development, kissing may have been practised...

Four-fifths of the world's population now live in urban...

A comprehensive UN report has found that cities and towns are home to 81 per cen...

Mathematicians say Google's AI tools are supercharging ...

AlphaEvolve, an AI system created by Google DeepMind, is helping mathematicians ...

What is cloud seeding and could it end the drought in I...

Facing its worst drought in decades, Iran is attempting to stimulate rain by spr...

Vast Bronze Age city discovered in the plains of Kazakh...

A major settlement in Central Asia called Semiyarka dating back to 1600 BC had h...

Neanderthals' hefty noses weren’t well adapted to cold ...

Neanderthals were thought to have structures inside their noses that helped them...

Ancient figurine may show sexual encounter between woma...

A 12,000-year-old clay sculpture found in Israel depicts a goose on the back of ...

Parasitic ant tricks workers into killing their queen, ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but w...

Rapid melt from Antarctica could help preserve crucial ...

Greenland’s melt is expected to slow the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circula...

Cuts and scrapes may be slower to heal in redheads

Mice with the same genetic variant that contributes towards red hair in people w...

Mystery deepens as isolated galaxy forms stars with no ...

A galaxy in a practically empty area of the universe seems to be impossibly form...

Oldest ever RNA sample recovered from woolly mammoth

RNA from an exceptionally well preserved woolly mammoth gives us a window on gen...

Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of c...

The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an ide...

Why aren't young people having sex any more?

Sexual activity in young people is on the decline, but why? And what's more, sho...

Fossil fuel emissions rise again – but China's are leve...

Global emissions from fossil fuels are expected to hit another record high in 20...

Strongest evidence yet that the Epstein-Barr virus caus...

Lupus has been linked to the Epstein-Barr virus – which causes glandular fever, ...

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