After 12 billion years travelling across the Universe, we can see the light of...
Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the life and death of the...
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Researchers have discovered a “remarkably complete” cranium of a 3.8-million-year-old early human ancestor.
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U.N. warns space debris threatens our communications
One of the largest human landfills is above our heads and is invisible to the naked eye.
Six decades of space races have left thousands of tons of scrap metal...
How humans (as all animals) actually sense cold
A newly identified receptor protein lets animals, from worms to humans, sense cold temperatures, researchers report.
“Clearly, nerves in the skin can sense cold, but no one has been able...
Mouse brains don’t form Alzheimer’s plaques at all when microglia is removed
A new way to forestall Alzheimer’s disease in a laboratory setting could one day help in devising targeted drugs that prevent it.
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Can help this technology to recognise where a volcano will erupt?
Most of the times you see the eruption of a volcano on TV or the internet, the magma shoots right out of its top. However, it is not so...
Cockroaches are the best model for moving robots
A cleverly simple method to assess and improve locomotion in robots gets its inspiration from the superb scurrying skills of cockroaches.
Normally, understanding how insects’ or robots’ moving parts...
Podcasts and reading stimulate the same cognitive and emotional parts of the brain
Listening to a book likely stimulates the same cognitive and emotional parts of the brain as reading it, new research shows.
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Team cracks mystery of Dead Sea summer ‘snow’
New research may solve the mystery behind the the Dead Sea’s salt crystal “snowfall.”
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