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Category: Science
Response to anaesthetic can predict if people will reco...
In a first small test, the brainwaves of people in a minimally conscious state changed in a characteristic way when given an anaes...
Milk allergy could be treated with gradual exposure to ...
Children who were gradually exposed to baked milk powder learned to tolerate higher doses in a small clinical trial
AI predicts which mammals are most likely to spread cov...
Water buffalo, Sunda pangolins and mink are among the 540 mammals predicted to be likely to spread the coronavirus based on their ...
Strobe weapons: What are they, who is using them and do...
Belarusian soldiers used flashing lights to daze Polish forces amid a border stand-off last week. Strobe weapons have been claimed...
Anti-satellite weapons: Will further tests make space m...
After the Russian military smashed a defunct satellite, creating a cloud of dangerous debris, other powers may wish to prove they ...
Covid-19 news: Hackers targeted labs crucial to UK’s pa...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Pale barn owls in UK and Ireland hint at ancient land b...
The barn owls of northern Europe are typically dark-feathered, making the pale-feathered barn owls of the UK and Ireland an anomal...
Why do we exist? The meaning of life isn’t to be found ...
We are tiny specks of life in a vast, indifferent cosmos – but to say that decreases the value of our existence is to measure ours...
Why are we conscious? The answer lies in other animals’...
It’s easy to think human conscious experience is unique, but a better understanding of consciousness’s mysteries comes by tracing ...
Iodine-powered satellite successfully tested in space f...
Many satellites use xenon as a propellant to help them change orbit or avoid collisions, but the gas is expensive – now we know io...
Donated embryo offers rare glimpse of development after...
We know little about human development just after implantation, but an embryo donated by one individual offers a rare look at the ...
Why is there something not nothing? The big bang isn’t ...
The idea that the universe started in the big bang revolutionised 20th-century cosmology. But it seems increasingly unlikely it wa...