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Stone tools help monkeys thrive in hostile habitats

Golden-bellied capuchins are usually found in humid forests, but some population...

Shock discovery tears up the rules of time and space in...

Time and memory space are the two main constraints on what we can compute, and u...

NASA set to launch SPHEREx space telescope to scan enti...

NASA's newest space telescope will scan the entire sky in a range of near-infrar...

We now know how much emissions have delayed the next gl...

Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast sugg...

We now know how much global warming has delayed the nex...

Changes in Earth’s orbit drive long-term glacial cycles, but a new forecast sugg...

Why the world’s longevity hotspots may not be all they ...

Blue Zones, places home to an unusual number of centenarians, are looked to for ...

A man's brain was turned into glass by the eruption of ...

A cloud of super-heated volcanic ash and gas exploded the brain of one Herculane...

Spacecraft may need to be dirtier to keep astronauts he...

There may be logic in keeping spacecraft as sterile as possible, but this could ...

How to see every planet in the solar system at once thi...

For a few evenings around 28 February, every planet in the solar system will be ...

'Galloping' bubbles could act as tiny robotic vacuum cl...

While experimenting with waves, researchers discovered that vibrating a containe...

Extreme heat may speed up biological ageing in older pe...

Spending more days in extreme heat seems to be linked to markers of increased bi...

Vital ocean current is unlikely to completely shut down...

Climate models predict that even under extreme warming, the Atlantic Meridional ...

Humans were living in tropical forests surprisingly early

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site i...

Thread-based computer could be knitted into clothes to ...

Wearable technology could go beyond smartwatches to items of clothing that monit...

Physicists capture a strange fractal ‘butterfly’ for th...

The electrons in a twisted piece of graphene show a strange repeating pattern fi...

People in industrial societies get more sleep than hunt...

Individuals in industrialised societies seem to sleep for longer than people in ...

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