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Category: Science
Scientists have worked out how to send viable mouse spe...
A simple way to transfer sperm, freeze-dried on a sheet of paper, could find an application in scientific studies and animal husba...
People in US went out less as covid-19 death rates rose...
It wasn’t just lockdowns or stay-at-home orders that stopped people from going out during the covid-19 pandemic in the US – local ...
Both boys and girls tend to write stories about boys
Stories written by children in the UK aged 5 to 13 are far more likely to feature male characters – regardless of whether the writ...
Why are so many records being broken at the Tokyo Olymp...
World records seem to be tumbling at an impressive rate at this year’s Olympic games. Is new technology responsible, asks Laura He...
Babylonians calculated with triangles centuries before ...
Over a millennium before the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, Babylonian surveyors were using Pythagorean triangles to accurately sha...
US Navy is developing a solar-powered plane that can fl...
Aerospace company Skydweller is working with the US Navy to develop a solar-powered aircraft that can stay aloft for 90 days and b...
How to understand world energy use – in 10 graphs
How fast is renewable energy rising and fossil fuel use declining? Who’s using how much energy – and for what? Find out in our qui...
Myocarditis is more common after covid-19 infection tha...
A preliminary study suggests that, among those most likely to develop myocarditis, the heart condition is six times more likely to...
How we can transform our energy system to achieve net-z...
Killing fossil fuels to halt global warming is the greatest challenge we face. We now have a masterplan of what we must do when – ...
Asking processed food firms to cut calories voluntarily...
Encouraging food manufacturers to voluntarily reduce the calorie content of their food doesn’t work, according to an analysis of d...
The moon may never actually have had a strong magnetic ...
We used to think that the moon had a strong magnetic field like Earth's, but a new analysis of rocks collected by the Apollo missi...
Google researchers made a time crystal inside a quantum...
A time crystal is a unique phase of matter that flips between two states with no energy input necessary – first proposed in 2012, ...