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Tue, 01/30/2024 - 6:30am
Contrail clouds that form behind planes are responsible for much of the climate warming effects of flying. Small altitude adjustments would help minimise them
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 1:00am
Light from hydrogen in the early universe has baffled astronomers, but researchers have spotted interacting galaxies that could explain how it makes its way to us
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 1:00am
An AI inspired by the way humans form long-term memories during sleep can learn to perform tasks better than existing models
Tue, 01/30/2024 - 12:06am
Calls made by male orangutans to attract females have short sequences nested inside longer sequences – a feature called recursion that was thought to be unique to human language
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:00pm
After nearly three years of exploring Mars, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has taken its final flight – but its astounding performance is a good sign for future drones on other worlds
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 11:24am
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to take astonishingly detailed images of spiral galaxies, revealing how and where they spark star formation
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 10:11am
A previously unknown type of replicating agent named "obelisks” has been found in genomic data from stool samples – but we know little about what these entities do
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 8:00am
As more and more people without diabetes start to monitor their blood glucose levels, we take a look at what the evidence says about limiting your blood sugar spikes after eating
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 8:00am
With more and more people monitoring their glucose levels in an attempt to boost their health, we take a look at what the evidence says about limiting your blood sugar spikes after eating
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 7:57am
A raft of new measures aimed at reducing underage vaping are set to come into law next year
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 6:00am
Drone footage filmed off the coast of California shows a 1.5-metre-long, entirely white great white shark pup, probably just hours old – something that has never been seen before
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 4:00am
Covering paintings with very thin layers of graphene, or mixing graphene-derived materials into mortars used for repairing historical structures, could protect them from degrading
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 3:22am
SLIM was put into hibernation after landing on the moon upside down, but it woke up when sunlight hit its solar panels
Mon, 01/29/2024 - 12:00am
Conventional thermodynamics says that heating and cooling are essentially mirror images of each other, but an experiment with a tiny silica sphere suggests otherwise
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