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Category: Science
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 ...
Bacterial probiotics could help protect corals from oce...
Coral reefs around the world are threatened by warming temperatures which cause them to bleach – but they might get some relief th...
US wildfire pollution linked to more covid-19 cases and...
Polluted air caused by smoke released from record-breaking wildfires in the US last year has been linked to a strong increase in c...
Covid-19: Why the UK needs to forget about herd immunit...
The threshold for eliminating covid-19 in the UK through herd immunity is out of reach, so it’s time to think about how to live wi...
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 ...
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 ...
The surprising ways the place where you work affects yo...
Your brain is exquisitely sensitive to your surroundings, tuning into external cues and distractions whether you like it or not. U...