Science
What we know so far about strep A child deaths in the UK
Nobody knows for sure why more children than usual have died due to the group A...
AI listens to toilet sounds to guess whether people have...
An artificial intelligence that can detect diarrhoea with 98 per cent accuracy from...
A surprising number of African animals eat beeswax
Honeyguide birds lead humans to bees’ nests and get beeswax as a reward, but camera...
Heat pump uses a loudspeaker and wet strips of paper to...
A prototype heat pump that uses water and sound to cool is three times as efficient...
What the world’s largest liquid mirror telescope means...
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope, perched high in the Himalayas, has finally...
Venice may get a temporary respite from rising seas by...
High winter sea levels in Venice are linked to warmer sea surface temperatures in...
Rare fossil reveals 'destroyer of shins' dinosaurs fought...
Damage to the spikes on the sides of a fossil of a Zuul crurivastator suggest that...
Ancient yeast used to brew the first lagers discovered...
Lager originated in Europe but the wild yeast species that was first used for brewing...
The Seven-Day Sleep Prescription review: Getting real about...
Everyone needs great sleep, but this is tough in a world where other basic needs...
Building blocks for life may be able to form in radioactive...
Amino acids have been found in meteorites, and now an experiment shows how they...
Why you may never be able to buy your own self-driving...
Despite recent claims of vehicles having full automation, it is no more possible...
We’re rushing the use of psychedelics as medicine, researchers...
Colorado has become the second US state to legalise psychedelic drugs for medicinal...
Self-knowledge: How to know your true personality and why...
When it comes to knowing yourself, your own perception of your personality doesn’t...
DNA from 2 million years ago is the oldest ever recovered
DNA bound to mineral particles in ancient sediment reveals that north Greenland...
Thousands of genetic variants may influence smoking and...
In a study of nearly 3.4 million people, almost 4000 genetic variants were linked...
A weird gamma ray burst doesn't fit our understanding of...
Astronomers have spotted a strange blast of gamma radiation from space that defies...
