One of the world's most common plastics – used in food packaging, plastic wraps, storage containers, and takeaway cups – may ...

Imagine filling a virtual room with 1,000 artificial intelligence (AI) agents and asking each one to choose between two ...

Do we really know what chemicals are in the personal care and cleaning products we use every day? A new study published in ...

It's not exactly easy to melt a diamond, but several experiments have done so over the years. In 2007, a team of scientists ...

When NASA's Perseverance rover used its laser to tease apart some pale rocks lying around in Jezero Crater in 2025, scientists did not expect anything out of the ordinary.

As Western Europe nears the end of its hottest summer on record, growers across the world's most famous wine regions are starting their harvests early – provided their grapes weren't already burnt in ...

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There's a lot going on beneath our feet, geologically speaking: layer upon layer of shifting rock, metal, and chemicals, and because getting a direct look inside Earth is so difficult, scientists rely ...

A new study led by researchers at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare suggests that specific microbes in household ...

Dolphins off the coast of Queensland, Australia, have been captured on film using a rarely-sighted technique known as 'shelling' to hunt their prey.

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A filter used to clear excess fats from the blood of people with cardiovascular disease may also trap much smaller stowaways: ...