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Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in their seminal fluid, a technique that could be ...

A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has passed away from the ...

Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations in drinking water ...

Lead records from Arctic glaciers indicate that people all over Europe would have been affected by pollution from metal ...

Throat vibrations made by people who find it difficult to speak, such as after a stroke, can be analysed by AI and used to ...

Many people decide to give up alcohol during January. But is this actually helpful in the long-term and are there better, ...

The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics invokes alternative realities to keep everything in balance. Has solving ...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...

From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there ...

Homo floresiensis, a metre-tall ancient hominin, lived on the South Pacific island of Flores and hunted dwarf elephants until ...