Asteroid Ryugu once had liquid water flowing through it
Samples retrieved from asteroid Ryugu indicate that it once had flowing water in far greater volumes than previously thought possible,…
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Major carbon sink may have vanished for a second year in a row
Record heat in 2024 caused ecosystems on land to emit nearly as much carbon dioxide as they took out of…
How to make great coffee with fewer beans, according to science
Physicists have determined that the ideal technique for pour-over coffee can use up to 10 per cent fewer beans to…
Electric fields could mine rare earth metals with less harm
Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mining operations. Harnessing electric fields could ma
Ceres may have been habitable at just half a billion years old
A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to…
Gene therapy enables five children who were born deaf to hear
Five children have had gene therapy to treat inherited deafness, this time in both ears, following the success of earlier…
Hepatitis B vaccine linked with a lower risk of developing diabetes
Being vaccinated against hepatitis B may reduce chronic inflammation levels in the body, which could help ward off diabetes
Why 2024 Abel prize winner Michel Talagrand became a mathematician
After losing an eye at the age of 5, the 2024 Abel prize winner Michel Talagrand found comfort in mathematics
Rain could be a clean way of generating lots of electricity
Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it…
Google launches $5m prize to find actual uses for quantum computers
Existing quantum computers can solve some problems faster than any ordinary computer, but none of those problems has any practical…