Nearly 31% of global farmland is at 'high risk' of pesticide pollution that can seep into water supplies and impact human health

Research has found that dingoes never breed with feral dogs, meaning that efforts to cull feral dogs across Australia predominantly affect this apex predator

Mother accused of children's deaths carries deadly genetic mutation | Scientists petition for her release

Multi-screening may mess with your memory

A 99 million-year-old lizard (named Yantarogekko Balticus) preserved perfectly in amber

Learning difficulties linked to poor brain connectivity. Research found children's brains were organised around hubs

Early Celts believed wine should be for all

Would you notice if your calculator was lying?

Australian researchers have found further evidence of the likely impact of fluoxetine, the active ingredient in anti-depressants such as Prozac, on wild fish

Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way

Global groundwater extraction a “ticking time bomb”

Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures

Researchers have used stem cells to make a 3D model of vocal cords that developed potentially cancer-causing changes after being doused in cigarette smoke extract.

An analysis of studies involving more than 23,000 people with dementia has found outdoor activities and massage are more effective than drugs in treating aggression and agitation.

A five-year study in Indonesian waters has confirmed that wild-roaming reef manta rays (Manta alfredi) form selective bonds with other rays, providing evidence of structured social relationships.

The Atomic Bomb Dropped Over Hiroshima Created A New Kind Of Minerals

‘Mind-reading’ may help those who cannot speak

The Milky Way achieved its present form about 10 billion years ago when it merged with a smaller, neighbouring galaxy, dubbed Gaia-Enceladus, new observations and modelling show.

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have shown that an algorithm with no training in materials science can scan the text of millions of papers and uncover new scientific knowledge.

A prehistoric burial mound in southwest France was used and re-used by locals for more than two millennia, according to an analysis of bones and teeth from the site.

New water cycle discovered on Mars

Across all primates, including humans, "the showiest males have the smallest testes."

This "little" black blob is 40 billion kilometers across (Earth is 13,000km across for reference) Voyager 1 has been traveling close to 16km/sec for the past 41 years, and has still only traveled half the total diameter of the black hole

Table-top LIGO illustrates quantum breakthrough in gravitational wave hunt - Mirrors the size of pinpricks let researchers hear quantum noise at room temperature.

Balloons are 32 times more likely to kill seabirds than hard plastics, Australian research shows

In a blow to the image of hydropower as a source of green energy, scientists have found damming of tropical rivers not only damage downstream ecosystems, but can indirectly dump more carbon dioxide into the air than the electricity they generate saves in fossil fuel emissions.

Geneticists accidentally engineer mice with especially short, long tails- Scientists stumbled upon the genetic pathway that controls tail developmental in mice

Study finds most of Earth's water is asteroidal in origin, but some, perhaps as much as 2%, came from the solar nebula

Scientists have found a 33-million-year-old whale fossil that had neither teeth nor baleen

Researchers have created an electricity-producing bionic mushroom by augmenting a white button mushroom from the grocery store with cyanobacteria and graphene

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