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Category: Science
13 things we learned from the landmark IPCC climate rep...
The world’s top climate scientists have today released their first major review in eight years on the physical science of climate ...
Both boys and girls tend to write stories about boys
Stories written by children in the UK aged 5 to 13 are far more likely to feature male characters – regardless of whether the writ...
Why are so many records being broken at the Tokyo Olymp...
World records seem to be tumbling at an impressive rate at this year’s Olympic games. Is new technology responsible, asks Laura He...
Dolphins spotted trapping fish in mud rings in the Cari...
Some dolphins churn up seafloor mud to form a ring that traps fish – and now we know the technique has been developed independentl...
Organic blobs built in lab may be small step towards sy...
Microscopic organic blobs created from scratch could provide clues about how biological cells formed spontaneously on early Earth ...
Ancient lake in Mars’s Gale crater may have actually be...
Gale crater, which NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring for the past eight years, was thought to have once held a huge lake –...
Pianists fitted with robotic thumb can learn to play wi...
A robotic thumb strapped next to the little finger can be controlled well enough by some people to be used while playing piano
Giant dinosaurs may have fasted like emperor penguins w...
The largest known dinosaurs may have fasted like emperor penguins while laying their eggs, suggests a chemical analysis of their e...
Scientists have worked out how to send viable mouse spe...
A simple way to transfer sperm, freeze-dried on a sheet of paper, could find an application in scientific studies and animal husba...
People in US went out less as covid-19 death rates rose...
It wasn’t just lockdowns or stay-at-home orders that stopped people from going out during the covid-19 pandemic in the US – local ...
Asking processed food firms to cut calories voluntarily...
Encouraging food manufacturers to voluntarily reduce the calorie content of their food doesn’t work, according to an analysis of d...
The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic ...
We used to think that the moon had a strong magnetic field like Earth's, but a new analysis of rocks collected by the Apollo missi...