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What are these 'liquid trees' springing up in schools and cities in recent years and why are they called natural bioreactors?
Plastic shards on a nanometre scale have been identified in the human brain. What's worse, the amount has increased over time, and a particular kind of plastic seems to be prone to accumulate in the brain.
Legal language is written in a complicated, confusing way. Is this intentional? Gibson Lab at MIT reveals the secrets behind this are "spell-bindingly" archaic. Find out why!
Doing deadlifts, squats or using the bench press is not just for the gym. It’s an essential part of astronauts’ programmes to prepare for, live in, and recover from space.
Microalgae thought to be one species is actually three, and it produces high amounts of hydrocarbons, bringing biofuel potential. What's more, the new species was discovered by accident during the Covid-19 pandemic by a graduate student!
Using large datasets and a powerful camera telescope, researchers recently resolved a long standing debate about whether galaxies cluster around each other are smaller or bigger. Find the answer here!
The Altar Stone was once presumed to come from Wales like many of Stonehenge's other "bluestones". Scientists say they are "shocked" by what they found. What questions does this overturn about Stonehenge's mysteries?
A "super sized" drill core taking out a piece of the Earth's inner mantle exposes what it is really made of and its secret history, including some glimpses of what was going on when earliest life began.
The mystery of why the most stable part of continents are actually uplifted is exposed. It has to do with an underlying geological force which also helps spur diamonds from below.
Prickles are features on many plants, perhaps most famously, thorns of roses, as featured in many fairytale stories. Why do some plants, even those that seem unrelated share this thorny similarity? In revolutionary research, scientists show Lonely Guy is behind it.
Seeing how many tonnes of ice are brought in and potentially wasted at the Olympic Games, researchers came together to publish a sports medicine opinion piece about the figures, criticising the popular perceptions of ice and cold treatment to help athletes recover.
Researchers expect high pollen levels and ozone air concentrations which could impact certain athletes under hot weather and clear skies this year. Find out why here as the Paris Olympics 2024 begins.
It's "magical" to consider how water vapour in clouds can become rain plummeting to the surface of our planet. This process has also been somewhat elusive to science but new research reveals its finer details that can lead to better forecasts. Find out what they found.
As two United Nations global conventions to address biodiversty and climate change will be done separately this year, 2024, scientists urge that world leaders communicate about tackling both problems together. We look into why.
See our selection of space photos shortlisted from the Astronomy Photography of the Year 2024 and learn more about the wonders of space.
Were ancient dingoes related to domestic dogs in their ancestry? DNA evidence from Australia gives answers.
Por primera vez en la historia científica se ha descubierto un túnel en el subsuelo de la Luna. Los científicos lo llaman "conducto subterráneo de cueva". ¿Cómo llegó hasta allí?
Archaeologists have new light on what plants were grown in the earliest days of agriculture in east Africa - a long held enigma during which human evolution occurred.
The secret to a Wimbledon garden inspired makeover has been revealed – coffee grounds from the tournament's staff room. The tournament's head gardener explains why.