Ancient cities discovered in the Amazon are the largest yet found
A mysterious civilisation built a network of cities and roads in the Amazon between 3000 and 1500 years ago, and…
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Tiniest particle accelerator is so small it could fit into a pen tip
A particle accelerator that measures just 0.2 mm in length uses laser light to accelerate electrons to speeds of a…
Targeted mRNA delivery will lead to cheaper cures for many diseases
A technique for delivering mRNAs to blood stem cells should enable better and cheaper treatments for conditions from sickle cell…
Superconducting qubits have passed a key quantum test
A Bell test can confirm whether two systems are truly entangled – it has now been used to confirm entanglement…
JWST gets a closer look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal unexpectedly high levels of carbon dioxide coming off 3I/ATLAS, giving another clue…
Could old mines host all the solar energy we need?
There may be enough space on former open-pit mines to build all the solar facilities we need, but building there…
Dark energy isn’t what we thought – and that may transform the cosmos
Our current best theories of the universe suggest that dark energy is making it expand faster and faster, but new…
H5N1 bird flu is closer to gaining pandemic potential than we thought
The flu virus currently circulating in birds and dairy cows is already better at infecting people than earlier variants, and…
Having radio waves beamed into our head ramps up our sense of smell
Directing radio waves at the olfactory system deep within our head seems to boost our ability to detect different smells
Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome
A fossil bone displaying features consistent with Down’s syndrome belonged to a Neanderthal child who survived beyond 6 years old,…