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Category: Science
People happily steal from groups even if they are gener...
In lab tests where people are able to take money from groups of people, they nearly always do – but the same individuals tend to b...
Covid-19 news: Daily new cases in the UK rise to 31,117
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
QAnon posts by figurehead Q may be written by more than...
An analysis of around 5000 posts by Q, the figurehead of a far-right conspiracy theory, suggests that there is more than one perso...
UK summers are likely to regularly feature intense 40°C...
UK summers are likely to regularly see temperatures above 40°C even if humanity manages to limit global warming to 1.5°C, meteorol...
Parents' second-hand marijuana smoke may cause colds in...
Children whose parents smoke or vape cannabis appear to get slightly more respiratory infections, such as colds and flu, than thos...
Waves of animals died at an ancient Spanish lake and no...
Fossil forensics and artificial intelligence have shed light on how multiple groups of large mammals died by a lake in what is now...
AI carpenter can design recreations of furniture from a...
An algorithm can turn photos of wooden objects into a 3D model that is detailed enough for a skilled carpenter to replicate
First known wild chimpanzee with albinism was killed by...
A baby chimpanzee was born with white fur and no pigmentation, the first time such an animal has been found in the wild. But the c...
Lost art of the Stone Age: The cave paintings redrawing...
Newly discovered cave art gives fresh insight into the minds of our ancestors - and upends the idea that a Stone Age cultural expl...
Single-celled organism has evolved a natural mechanical...
A single-celled organism with no brain that walks on surfaces using 14 "legs" seems to control these legs with a mechanical comput...
Caffeine-fuelled bumblebees are better at foraging for ...
Bumblebees that get a boost of caffeine are better able to remember the odours of specific flowers, helping them to forage in futu...
X-rays can echo and bend around the back of supermassiv...
Flashes of X-rays have been spotted echoing from behind a supermassive black hole, confirming one of the predictions of Albert Ein...