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This optical illusion expands as you stare at it - and ...

Using a computer model of the retina, researchers have been able to trace the ca...

Blue Origin vs SpaceX: Who is winning the battle of the...

Blue Origin and SpaceX both launched rockets on 16 January, but while Jeff Bezos...

Enigmatic people who took over Europe millennia ago cam...

A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across ...

Indoor cannabis farms in US use more energy than all ot...

Two-thirds of US cannabis is grown indoors, requiring lights and temperature con...

The 100-year-old symmetry theorem that is still changin...

Emmy Noether was hailed as a mathematical genius in her own time. And her theore...

Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveal...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun could be u...

Twisted light may illuminate how quantum spookiness works

Physicists have verified a connection between two counterintuitive quantum prope...

Surge in ocean heat is a sign climate change is acceler...

The rate of warming in the oceans has more than quadrupled since 1985, suggestin...

The perfect boiled egg takes more than half an hour to ...

If you have the patience to repeatedly switch an egg between a hot and a colder ...

New device can scan your face in 3D from hundreds of me...

A lidar scanner has a resolution so high it can image ridges and indentations of...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 may hit Earth in 2032 – how worried s...

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronome...

Scientists fear losing essential climate data during Tr...

A temporary loss of access to key datasets on levels of CO2 in the atmosphere ad...

Rabbits may eat their own teeth to boost their calcium ...

The animals' teeth are constantly being worn down due to their tough diet. But r...

Robotic exoskeleton can train expert pianists to play f...

Trained pianists who hit a plateau improved their finger speed after a half-hour...

Covid smell loss eased by injecting blood cells into th...

Just three nasal injections of blood cells called platelets helped people whose ...

The world is on track for between 1.9 and 3.7°C of warm...

While some progress has been made in limiting greenhouse gas emissions, we are s...

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