Category: Science

Hares with failed snow camouflage still manage to avoid...

Snowshoe hares turn white in autumn to blend into their snowy environment – but surprisingly, they thrive even when the snow doesn...

Covid-19 news: Past covid-19 infection boosts protectio...

The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...

Lava-munching microbes were the earliest life on land

About 3.2 billion years ago, microbes began to colonise land for the first time, and geological evidence suggests they fed on ener...

A lack of fish faeces is changing the flow of carbon in...

Fish faeces play an important role in the carbon cycle of the ocean, but industrial fishing has lead to a lack of defecation

Covid-19 news: Pfizer vaccine 90% effective against hos...

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Physics Nobel awarded for work on chaotic systems such ...

This year's winners of the Nobel prize for physics are Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann and Giorgio Parisi

Football teams lost home advantage in lockdowns but it ...

Football fans cheering on their team can influence match results, as a lack of spectators during lockdowns saw a dip in home advan...

Covid-19 news: Concern over critically ill unvaccinated...

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Team of underground rescue robots wins $2 million DARPA...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded $2 million to a team of quadruped and flying robots capable of explor...

Women are less likely to get pregnant for two years aft...

Women with concussion are less likely to conceive in the two years after their head injury than women who injured another part of ...

Decaying oil tanker near Yemen could trigger humanitari...

Safer, an oil tanker in the Red Sea, has been abandoned and could unleash a catastrophic oil spill that would leave millions of pe...

Biological computer made from single-celled organisms c...

Micro-organisms can now be used to construct a biological computing device that than study patterns in data to predict future even...

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