Our wounds heal slower than the cuts and scrapes of other primates
Human wounds take almost three times as long to heal as those of other primates, which may come down to…
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Why farming fish is more unsustainable than catching them in the wild
Producing a kilogram of farmed salmon may require 4 or 5 kilograms of wild fish, which isn't a sustainable approach…
Frozen human brain tissue can now be revived without damage
Using a new approach, scientists have successfully frozen and thawed brain organoids and cubes of brain tissue from someone with…
Medieval horses buried in London had far-flung origins
Isotopic analysis of horse teeth from a medieval burial site suggest that the animals were imported to England from Scandinavia…
Can India build a world-leading computer chip industry from scratch?
India currently has a fairly small chip-manufacturing industry, but prime minister Narendra Modi wants the country to become a dominant…
New-to-science stick insect is the heaviest ever found in Australia
A giant stick insect species found in Australia’s Wet Tropics named Acrophylla alta can reach 40 centimetres in length and…
Extreme close-up of Jupiter’s moon Io captured by Juno spacecraft
NASA’s Juno spacecraft flew past Io on 30 December and took one of our best pictures yet of this moon…
Should we preserve the pre-AI internet before it is contaminated?
The rise of AI-generated content since 2022 risks making it impossible to know when information was produced solely by humans,…
Pepper X: The world has a new hottest chilli
Pepper X scorches the previous record holder, the Carolina Reaper, by a million Scoville heat units
Doubts cast over D-Wave’s claim of quantum computer supremacy
D-Wave's claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hundreds of years on classical machines have been…