An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...
The rules governing gravity and other laws of nature seem like eternal truths, but cosmologist João Magueijo has always ...
Minuscule silicon wafers propelled by lasers could be used to steer light sails, helping them travel beyond the solar system ...
If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic ...
The deeper mathematics goes, the stranger everything becomes. This is what the numbers actually show, and what it still ...
Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...
How important is thinking about your breath for calming yourself down? We now know that slow breathing is effective even ...
Around 175,000 years ago, Neanderthals ventured deep inside a cave in what is now France, broke off stalagmites and used them to build mysterious circular structures. Later on, bears moved in and ...
The long-term rise in IQ scores might be coming to a halt, but we should focus on improving social conditions rather than ...
Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took that job in another city or turned left instead of right. But to a physicist, the multiverse ...
The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius and ...
A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...
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