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Category: Science
How domesticating the African baobab tree could secure ...
Farmers seldom plant the African baobab because it takes up to 23 years to fruit, but a team in Ghana has got the trees to flower ...
Woman loses ability to feel hungry after stroke damages...
A young woman who lost the sensation of hunger after a stroke may help to explain one of the most mysterious areas of the brain an...
Covid-19 news: Blood clot risk higher after infection t...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Climate change linked to risk of viruses jumping specie...
Climate change may increase the risk of viruses infecting new hosts in the Arctic, suggests a study of genetic material from an Ar...
AI accurately identifies whether objects can be recycle...
A neural network trained on a dataset of images can identify recyclable objects with more than 95 per cent accuracy using a standa...
iPhone and Apple Watch magnets are strong enough to dis...
The magnets used in the iPhone 12 and Apple Watch 6 are strong enough to cause medical implants such as pacemakers to shut down if...
Mysterious cosmic rays spotted coming from ordinary ste...
High energy cosmic rays usually come from powerful supernova explosions, but a new discovery suggests they can be released by smal...
Female octopuses throw things at males that are harassi...
An analysis of footage of octopuses off Australia throwing silt and shells suggests that they deliberately target others, and that...
Martian cave entrances may offer a life-friendly radiat...
The surface of Mars is bombarded with far more dangerous radiation than Earth, but the area just inside caves may shield from UV r...
Covid-19 news: NHS England prepares to vaccinate childr...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Opioid levels in US wastewater spiked during the early ...
In the early months of the covid-19 pandemic, wastewater samples from Kentucky and Tennessee had a 72 per cent increase in hydroco...
Hedy Lamarr
Actor and the inventor of a wireless communications technique still in use today