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The south pole of Mars may be hiding a cold lake of liquid water surrounded by ponds, all buried 1400 metres beneath the planet’s ice caps

A new way of calculating biological age based on the bacteria in our gut has thrown up some surprising results, including that people on the paleo diet are biologically almost two years older than their real age

Microscopic marine algae can use even the smallest amount of reflected light to grow in near darkness during winter under the Arctic sea ice

Tiny robots that can transport individual neurons and connect them to form active neural circuits could help us study brain disorders such as Alzheimer's disease

Astronauts on the moon would face 2.6 times more radiation exposure than those aboard the International Space Station, which could make long-term missions riskier than thought

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Extreme events can skew evolution in a way that helps drives small, vulnerable populations to extinction, and global warming is making such events more common

The uniquely quiet circumstances of the covid-19 restrictions in San Francisco saw birds respond by lowering their pitch, singing sexier songs and making their songs clearer

Researchers have developed tiny wires made entirely of carbon, a key advance on the path to developing carbon computers and smartphones

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Tiny shrimp have been found living in Iran’s Lut desert, which has reached temperatures above 80°C. These shrimp have eggs that lay dormant for years when water is scarce

A Cuvier's beaked whale did a dive lasting 3 hours and 42 minutes, breaking the previous record by an hour. How they manage to hold their breath for such long periods is not understood

The first planet found outside the Milky Way may be in the Whirlpool galaxy, 28 million light years away. If it is confirmed, it would be the most distant planet ever spotted

While there may have been a few cases outside Wuhan as early as December, it appears the virus did not become widespread until months later

Curly is a robot with a camera arm and wheels that uses AI to assess the best strategy for playing the game of curling – and it beat top-ranked players

People who respond to the placebo effect have proteins in their blood that are linked to controlling inflammation, which may help to explain how a placebo makes us feel better

This image is a terrible reminder of the US wildfire crisis. Here it rages by California's Bidwell Bar Bridge, which spans Oroville Lake in Butte County

Netflix’s Hope Frozen documentary follows a family in Thailand that cryogenically freezes their 2-year-old daughter’s brain after she dies, creating a controversy-fuelled media storm

Amazon Prime chiller Utopia is as "gnarly, nasty, raw and unnerving" as Gone Girl screenwriter Gillian Flynn envisaged, especially when it draws parallels with the threats of our times