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Category: Science
Do you phub? Ignoring friends for your phone is linked ...
You are more likely to regularly participate in "phubbing", or looking at your phone while in the company of others, if you have a...
NASA’s Perseverance rover took its first Mars sample – ...
The Perseverance Mars rover made its first sampling attempt on 6 August but the sample tube came up empty, so NASA scientists are ...
States of matter: The unthinkable forms beyond solid, l...
From time crystals to supersolids, we keep discovering extraordinary new kinds of matter – now the true challenge is being able to...
Sicily hits 48.8°C, the highest temperature ever record...
The highest temperature ever recorded in Europe was reported on 11 August. The town of Syracuse on the Italian island of Sicily re...
Mercury has almost no boulders on its surface and we're...
Researchers examined about 3000 of the best images we have of the planet Mercury, and only 14 of them contained boulders – far few...
Handheld railgun as powerful as an air rifle to go on s...
An electromagnetic rifle, a device that uses electromagnetic coils to push a steel projectile down its barrel, is now being offere...
Google can take two months to remove malware apps from ...
An analysis of malicious apps discovered on the Google Play Store found that after being detected they remain available to users f...
Most cancers of the oesophagus are caused by escaped st...
Most tumours of the oesophagus start as escaped stomach cells that turned cancerous, and a novel screening method of swallowing a ...
Howler monkeys navigate using adaptable mental maps, ju...
Black howler monkeys move through their environment using mental maps that the primates modify and adapt as the landscape changes ...
Ancient dog faeces show how our canine friends became o...
Gut microbes helped ancient dogs eat starch-rich food when farming led to a change in diet for people and their animals, an analys...
Snake-like robot could explore Saturn’s icy moon Encela...
A snake-like robot made of giant screws and flexible joints that can travel across hard or loose surfaces and worm into tiny space...
How to watch the spectacular Perseids meteor shower
Meteor showers dazzle the night sky, but the Perseids shower is special. It peaks on 12 August this year, and here's how to enjoy ...