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Hunter-gatherers get less sleep than people in industri...

People in industrialised societies seem to sleep for longer than those in non-in...

Black squirrels may be evolving due to roadkill in cities

Grey squirrels can actually come in black morphs, which are doing well in one US...

Motorists may be driving the evolution of black squirre...

Grey squirrels can actually come in black morphs, which are doing well in one US...

Medicines made in space set to touch down in Australian...

Varda, a US firm planning to manufacture pharmaceuticals in low Earth orbit, is ...

When did people start building houses with corners?

Around the world, the earliest buildings are typically round while later ones ar...

Big animals have higher cancer risk – but also evolved ...

A comparison of 263 species supports the idea that large animals have higher rat...

Ancient hunters may have used throwing spears 300,000 y...

Preserved wooden spears from hundreds of thousands of years ago seem to have bee...

Deep-sea life is still recovering from mining activity ...

The site of a deep-sea mining test in 1979 had lower levels of biodiversity when...

Intuitive Machines' lunar lander Athena set to blast of...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to launch a number of missions, including a pr...

Intuitive Machine's lunar lander Athena set to blast of...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is about to launch a number of missions, including a pr...

22,000-year-old tracks are earliest evidence of transpo...

Tracks and footprints found in New Mexico are by far the earliest evidence of pe...

Huge thunderstorm on Jupiter captured in best detail ev...

NASA's Juno spacecraft swooped in for a close look at a massive thunderstorm on ...

Dogs seem to have a strong preference for yellow things

When offered a choice of bowls, free-ranging dogs in India tend to approach a ye...

How one farm is testing multiple carbon-capture tricks ...

Rock dust, compost and biochar can all help capture carbon dioxide and boost cro...

Hair conditioner made from wood is black and smelly, bu...

Hair conditioner made using lignin, a polymer found in wood and bark, works just...

US stops sharing flu data with WHO amidst one of its wo...

The US withdrawal from the World Health Organization formally takes one year, bu...

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