It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

— Plato

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Tiny elusive gecko rediscovered on one of the Galapagos islands

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
Leaf-toed geckos were thought to be locally extinct on Rabida Island, but the diminutive reptiles have re-emerged after a campaign to eliminate invasive rats
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How regrowing your own teeth could replace dentures and implants

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
Losing a tooth as an adult is par for the course for many of us. The only option to replace them? Artificial substitutes. But an era of regrowing living teeth may now be almost upon us
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The pandemic may have aged our brains even before we caught covid-19

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
The covid-19 pandemic changed our lives, and the world, in many ways - and now we are starting to understand its wider neurological effects
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Ancient animal's fossilised brain prompts rethink of spider evolution

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00pm
A 500-million-year-old sea creature called Mollisonia shared a similar brain structure to modern spiders, suggesting that arachnids first evolved in the sea
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Small, stocky dinosaur related to Velociraptor named as new species

Tue, 07/22/2025 - 8:00am
Shri rapax, known from a fossil found in Mongolia, had strong hands and teeth which may have helped it tackle much larger dinosaurs
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Gluten may not actually trigger many irritable bowel syndrome cases

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 7:30pm
People who follow a gluten-free diet in the hope of it calming their irritable bowel syndrome may actually be able to tolerate the common dietary protein
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Sprinkling limestone on farms may offer an unexpected climate win

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 5:00pm
Farms commonly spread crushed limestone on fields to make the soil less acidic – and this practice can also help remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
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Four-day working week may boost our health and performance at work

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:51pm
Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept better and felt that their ability to work improved
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Octopuses fall for the rubber hand illusion just like us

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:00pm
Octopuses can be tricked into thinking that a fake arm is part of their body, suggesting they have a sense of body ownership similar to our own
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We've discovered a door to a hidden part of reality – what's inside?

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 12:00pm
Physicists would dearly love to find new particles, but there's no sign of them in colliders like the LHC. Now we have found a new way of accessing a tiny slice of reality where they might be hiding
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Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it is contaminated?

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:56am
The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was produced solely by humans, which could be a problem for both future AI and historians
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Immortal stars could live forever by 'eating' dark matter

Mon, 07/21/2025 - 8:00am
A computer simulation of stars near the centre of our galaxy offers an explanation for their mysteriously young appearance – they may be capturing dark matter for extra fuel
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Your chance of having a boy or girl may not be 50/50

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 3:00pm
We commonly think that sperm determines the sex of a child, depending on whether it carries an X or Y chromosome, but a study now suggests that a woman's age is also a factor
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Exposure to microplastic makes animals want to eat it more

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 2:00pm
Over multiple generations, small nematode worms began preferring microplastic-contaminated food over cleaner options, which could have consequences for ecosystem health
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Ranching and farming have eroded almost all the soil in the Alps

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 1:00pm
Grazing livestock and farming over the past 4000 years have rapidly accelerated the rate of soil loss in the Alps, jeopardising the ecosystem and putting the mountains at risk of further erosion
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Laws of quantum physics may rule out a universe that came before ours

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:26pm
Instead of the big bang, some physicists have suggested that our universe may have come from a big bounce following another universe contracting – but quantum theory could rule this out
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Obesity may come in 11 different types, each with their own cause

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 12:00pm
Obesity could exist in many forms, which may benefit from different treatments and prevention strategies
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Is it time to aim for 1.7°C as the new limit for global warming?

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 8:00am
With the world on the cusp of passing 1.5°C of warming, scientists are turning their attention to defining a new limit for temperature rises – but not everyone agrees that we should
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Little red dot galaxies have now been found in our local universe

Fri, 07/18/2025 - 5:00am
Small, compact galaxies seen in the early universe have puzzled astronomers – finding these unusual objects closer to home could provide hints about how they form
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AI demand could drive up US electricity bills – even if it fizzles

Thu, 07/17/2025 - 6:00pm
A rush to build more energy infrastructure is driven in part by inflated estimates of US data centre growth. That means households and small businesses could face higher electricity bills – even if AI demand falters
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