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Category: Science
Sample of asteroid Ryugu brought to Earth is a strange ...
Last year, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer returned samples from the asteroid Ryugu, and now the first analysis of the rock s...
Remarkable trove of species found living beneath Antarc...
The variety of species found below an Antarctic ice shelf shows that life can survive in hostile, food-poor environments for thous...
Higher US welfare benefits seem to protect children's b...
The size of a child’s hippocampus can be limited by stress, and US state welfare schemes that give families $500 a month or more a...
Fossil of the largest millipede that ever lived found o...
Arthropleura was the largest millipede ever to live, and palaeontologists have just found the fossilised remains of the longest sp...
One of the longest-lived ozone holes on record is about...
This year has been characterised by cold and strong polar vortices, resulting in strong ozone depletion and a reminder of how much...
Covid-19 news: WHO calls for holiday festivities to be ...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Jenson Button: ‘Extreme E is great racing without combu...
Extreme E, an off-road racing series that started this year, aims to prove that internal combustion engines are no longer required...
Covid-19 news: Pregnant women added to UK’s vaccine pri...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Fourteen new species of shrew discovered on an Indonesi...
A decade-long survey of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has uncovered over a dozen new species of shrew
How did the omicron coronavirus variant evolve to be so...
Omicron has become a global threat to public health thanks to a particularly dangerous set of mutations, but where did it come fro...
Tardigrade is first multicellular organism to be quantu...
A tardigrade cooled to near absolute zero and placed in a state of quantum entanglement survived its ordeal
Super-fast impacts may have made Venus an uninhabitable...
Collisions with high-speed space rocks in Venus’s early history could have melted most of the planet’s mantle and driven any water...