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Category: Science
Outsider wins DARPA challenge to predict where floats d...
A competition to forecast the locations of 90 floats drifting in the Atlantic could lead to better methods for tracking oil slicks...
Covid-19 news: Ministers plan for UK to ‘live with covi...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Covid-19 testing in the time of omicron: Everything you...
With omicron infections surging around the world, many countries are changing their coronavirus testing guidelines to better deal ...
Ancient Egyptian mummy of a young girl is first with a ...
The ancient Egyptians were adept at bandaging dead bodies during the mummification process, but we have had no evidence of the way...
Corkscrew-shaped robot swims through blood vessels to c...
Laboratory tests show a tiny robot with a helical propeller inspired by bacteria can swim through veins and deliver clot-busting d...
What dolphins reveal about the evolution of the clitori...
Patricia Brennan's latest research suggests that bottlenose dolphins have clitorises that evolved for pleasure. She tells New Scie...
Fungi that live on eucalyptus roots can control trees' ...
Eucalyptus trees rely on root fungi to source nutrients and water – but the fungi actually control the genetic development of the ...
Two black holes merged to form a huge one moving at inc...
Astronomers have long suspected that merging black holes can give the resulting larger black hole a massive boost of speed, and ha...
Bacteria form complex structures like those seen in ani...
Bacterial biofilms, slimy collections of microbes, can develop concentric rings containing cells with different biological feature...
Plumes of rock that feed volcanic hotspots are surprisi...
Geologists may need to come up with a new explanation for the sources of volcanic activity in places like Iceland and Hawaii
mRNA vaccine technology has helped repair broken hearts...
The mRNA technology used in some coronavirus vaccines is expected to have many other uses, including temporarily reprogramming hea...
Fix the Planet newsletter: 11 climate solutions to watc...
From heat pumps to electric cars, satellite launches to floating wind turbines, we focus our attention on 11 climate solutions to ...