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Category: Science
Unknown voices spark more brain activity in sleep than ...
Unfamiliar voices seem to put the sleeping brain on alert in a way that familiar voices don’t
Ancient Mars may have had a liquid ocean despite freezi...
A model based on Earth’s oceans and atmosphere explains how Mars could have been cold and wet 3 billion years ago
Volcano eruption in Tonga was a once-in-a-millennium ev...
The underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption has already triggered a tsunami, a sonic boom and thousands of lightning bolts, ...
Edible straws made by bacteria are better than paper or...
Plastic straws are increasingly being avoided for both health and environmental reasons, but the alternatives all have their downs...
Covid-19 news: Falling cases in UK suggests omicron wav...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Ozone pollution causes $63 billion damage per year to E...
Rising levels of ground-level ozone in China and nearby countries are having a big effect on the yields of staple crops such as wh...
Flu vaccines during pregnancy protect babies for 6 mont...
Evidence shows that getting a flu jab during pregnancy provides substantial protection to young babies, but uptake in many countri...
Portable laser scanner creates colour 3D images of surf...
Lidar uses lasers to create 3D images, but these can be hard to interpret because they are black and white. A new scanner adds cam...
Hybrid animal in 4500-year-old tomb is earliest known b...
Early Bronze Age people in Syria crossed donkeys with wild asses to make prized horse-like hybrids, demonstrating advanced underst...
UK energy crisis: Why renewable subsidies will help avo...
A new milestone this week points to how these environmental levies are more likely the solution, not the problem, when it comes to...
The moon's magnetic field may have been altered by huge...
There’s a new explanation for the moon’s former magnetic field, and it involves 60-kilometre-wide slabs of rock sinking through th...