Astrophysics

Orangutan calls have an intricate structure resembling ...

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Calls made by male orangutans to attract females have short sequences nested ins...

JWST has taken extraordinary images of 19 nearby spiral...

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Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to take astonishingly detai...

Contaminated hormone injections may have given five peo...

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Strange virus-like replicators discovered in the human gut

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A previously unknown type of replicating agent named "obelisks” has been found i...

Why does the UK want to ban disposable vapes and when w...

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A raft of new measures aimed at reducing underage vaping are set to come into la...

Newborn great white shark possibly seen in the wild for...

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Drone footage filmed off the coast of California shows a 1.5-metre-long, entirel...

Layer of graphene could help protect statues and painti...

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Covering paintings with very thin layers of graphene, or mixing graphene-derived...

Japan's SLIM moon lander regains power nine days after ...

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SLIM was put into hibernation after landing on the moon upside down, but it woke...

Heating and cooling are fundamentally different, not op...

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Conventional thermodynamics says that heating and cooling are essentially mirror...

Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold, dry...

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A study reconstructing the climate of Italy during the Roman Empire based on mar...

Patch with octopus-like suckers helps drugs penetrate t...

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A rubbery patch studded with suction cups that imitate the suckers on octopus li...

Fast-growing engineered cow cells could slash cost of c...

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Engineered cells that make the substances they need to grow could dramatically r...

Watch a robot with living muscles walk through water

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A tiny, biohybrid robot moves by contracting lab-grown muscle tissue in its legs...

The chemist who told us to put salt in our tea explains...

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After causing an international incident by suggesting that adding salt to your c...

Learning piano triggers complex changes to your brain's...

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Learning to play the piano causes various changes in activity in areas of the br...

Writing things down may help you remember information m...

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Writing words down increases connectivity linked to memory and learning between ...