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Moth wings offer acoustic protection from bat echolocation calls. Moth wing-inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough

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Analysis of three studies with a total of 131,421 participants aged 40 years and older reports that watching TV for 4 hours a day or more is associated with a 35% higher risk of blood clots compared with less than 2.5 hours

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Opioid agonist treatment is often stigmatized and has been under-funded

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Manuscript fragments of the famous Merlin legend among the oldest of their kind

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Bioengineering discovery paves way for improved production of bio-based goods using Baker’s yeast

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Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly

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Tropical Paper Wasps provide crucial support to their extended families by babysitting at neighbouring nests.

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Two studies show neonicotinoid insecticides, the most commonly used worldwide, affect the amount of sleep taken by both bumblebees and fruit flies, which may help us understand why insect pollinators are vanishing from the wild.

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In a new paper, an international team has identified a major extinction of life 233 million years ago that triggered the dinosaur takeover of the world

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Despite reports that global emissions of the very potent greenhouse gas HFC-23 were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists has found atmospheric levels growing at record values

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First chip-to-chip quantum teleportation harnessing silicon photonic chip fabrication

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Children of women who reported domestic violence in pregnancy or during the first six years of the child's life are almost 50 per cent more likely to have a low IQ at age eight.

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Some children are more likely to suffer depression long after being bullied, suggests a new study (n=3,525), which found young adults bullied as a child may have greater risk of depression due to genetic and environmental factors, such as mother with postnatal depression or family violence.

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Moth wings offer acoustic protection from bat echolocation calls. Moth wing-inspired sound absorbing wallpaper in sight after breakthrough

New study has revealed the most intense heatwaves ever across the world, also shows heatwaves are projected to get hotter in future with climate change

Insect-sized flying robots with flapping wings

The long-standing enigma of why so many patients suffering with high blood pressure (known as hypertension) also have diabetes (high blood sugar) has finally been cracked by an international team.

Analysis of three studies with a total of 131,421 participants aged 40 years and older reports that watching TV for 4 hours a day or more is associated with a 35% higher risk of blood clots compared with less than 2.5 hours

Study: Being overweight may cause more hospital admissions and higher incidences of disease and mortality than previous studies report

People strongly favour a fairer and more sustainable way of life in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite not thinking it will actually materialise or that others share the same progressive wishes, according to new research which sheds intriguing light on what people want for the future

Opioid agonist treatment is often stigmatized and has been under-funded

Frontline healthcare workers say they are angry at being treated as 'COVID cannon fodder, not COVID heroes' after responding to the virus for nearly two years and working at full capacity…

Manuscript fragments of the famous Merlin legend among the oldest of their kind

Teenagers who use cannabis frequently may be more likely to have children born preterm, when they become parents up to twenty years later

Bioengineering discovery paves way for improved production of bio-based goods using Baker’s yeast

Dinosaurs were generally huge, but a new study of the unusual alvarezsaurs show that they reduced in size about 100 million years ago when they became specialised ant-eaters.

Foraging humans, mammals and birds who live in the same place behave similarly

Tropical Paper Wasps provide crucial support to their extended families by babysitting at neighbouring nests.

Two studies show neonicotinoid insecticides, the most commonly used worldwide, affect the amount of sleep taken by both bumblebees and fruit flies, which may help us understand why insect pollinators are vanishing from the wild.

Research creates hydrogen-producing living droplets, paving way for alternative future energy source - Normally, algal cells fix carbon dioxide and produce oxygen by photosynthesis

Ground-breaking discovery finally proves rain really can move mountains: A pioneering technique which captures precisely how mountains bend to the will of raindrops has helped to solve a long-standing scientific enigma

Discovery of a druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein could stop virus in its tracks

In a new paper, an international team has identified a major extinction of life 233 million years ago that triggered the dinosaur takeover of the world

New research reveals how water in the deep Earth triggers earthquakes and tsunamis

Social media can accurately forecast economic impact of natural disasters including COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.

Despite reports that global emissions of the very potent greenhouse gas HFC-23 were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists has found atmospheric levels growing at record values

First chip-to-chip quantum teleportation harnessing silicon photonic chip fabrication

Young fish can be drawn to degraded coral reefs by loudspeakers playing the sounds of healthy reefs

Artificial neurons on silicon chips that behave just like the real thing have been invented by scientists – a first-of-its-kind achievement with enormous scope for medical devices to help chronic diseases…

Children of women who reported domestic violence in pregnancy or during the first six years of the child's life are almost 50 per cent more likely to have a low IQ at age eight.

Breakthrough in Synthetic Vaccine Technology Requires No Refrigeration

Some children are more likely to suffer depression long after being bullied, suggests a new study (n=3,525), which found young adults bullied as a child may have greater risk of depression due to genetic and environmental factors, such as mother with postnatal depression or family violence.

Study finds, that when it comes to making friends, it appears dolphins are just like us and form close friendships with other dolphins that have a common interest.