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Category: Science
How a Norwegian island is already living our climate ch...
As the world awaits the next key IPCC climate report, the rapidly warming Arctic island of Svalbard provides a glimpse into the fu...
UK summers are likely to regularly feature intense 40°C...
UK summers are likely to regularly see temperatures above 40°C even if humanity manages to limit global warming to 1.5°C, meteorol...
Parents' second-hand marijuana smoke may cause colds in...
Children whose parents smoke or vape cannabis appear to get slightly more respiratory infections, such as colds and flu, than thos...
Waves of animals died at an ancient Spanish lake and no...
Fossil forensics and artificial intelligence have shed light on how multiple groups of large mammals died by a lake in what is now...
AI carpenter can design recreations of furniture from a...
An algorithm can turn photos of wooden objects into a 3D model that is detailed enough for a skilled carpenter to replicate
First known wild chimpanzee with albinism was killed by...
A baby chimpanzee was born with white fur and no pigmentation, the first time such an animal has been found in the wild. But the c...
Ancient humans in Europe may have stolen food from wild...
The earliest humans known to have lived outside Africa shared their environment with hunting dogs – and may even have stolen food ...
People happily steal from groups even if they are gener...
In lab tests where people are able to take money from groups of people, they nearly always do – but the same individuals tend to b...
Sponge fossils suggest animals already existed 890 mill...
The preserved remains of sponges found in Canada suggest that animals may have originated 350 million years earlier than we though...
Part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft may still be in orbit ...
A discarded part of the Apollo 11 spacecraft that helped return astronauts from the first ever visit to the lunar surface may stil...
Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing...
Newly discovered cave art gives fresh insight into the minds of our ancestors - and upends the idea that a Stone Age cultural expl...
Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical...
A single-celled organism with no brain that walks on surfaces using 14 "legs" seems to control these legs with a mechanical comput...