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Using traditional crossbreeding, researchers have created a new strain of rice that produces much less methane, a potent ...

More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...

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Polar bears have a hidden-in-a-plain-sight superpower that anyone who has watched a wildlife documentary could have spotted: ice doesn’t stick to their fur. This has long been known to ...

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

People receiving talking therapy for mild to severe depression reported greater improvements to their symptoms when also taking creatine compared with those on a placebo ...

A muscle that we thought served no purpose beyond enabling some people to wiggle their ears is actually active when we are ...

An algorithm inspired by quantum computers but used on classical machines can make weather forecasts and other turbulence ...

The asteroid is unlikely to be cause for concern, but its detection has triggered planetary defence response procedures for ...