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Category: Science
Covid-19 news: UK approves Pfizer and AstraZeneca boost...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Why has El Salvador officially adopted bitcoin as its c...
El Salvador is the first country to adopt the cryptocurrency bitcoin as legal tender, but other nations may follow suit
Even tiny green spaces in cities help urban wildlife bi...
Greening parts of cities is widely promoted as boosting biodiversity, health and well-being, and now researchers have found that i...
Sea fireflies adapted their threatening glow to attract...
Tiny bean-shaped crustaceans called ostracods, known as sea fireflies, release glowing blue mucus to threaten predators, but some ...
Army ants use temporary bases to store food when raidin...
Army ants steal more food during raids on other insect nests by temporarily storing their plunder nearby, a computer simulation an...
Will China's algorithm crackdown serve its citizens or ...
China has drafted powerful new legislation that would control how businesses use data to target advertising, curate social media f...
Covid-19 news: lab experiments help explain why the vir...
The latest coronavirus news updated every day including coronavirus cases, the latest news, features and interviews from New Scien...
Blood test could reveal who is most likely to get sever...
A simple blood test could help predict which people with covid-19 are likely to get severely ill and need to go on a ventilator
Scorpions develop a sting in the tail before they are r...
Newborn scorpions produce and store venom in their tail, or telson, despite not being able to use it until they have shed their fi...
Tooth decay has been a problem for primates for 54 mill...
Microsyops latidens, a prehistoric primate that lived about 54 million years ago, had dental cavities – perhaps because it had a t...
Black holes just got much more complicated thanks to qu...
Black holes were once thought not to have pressure, but a new set of quantum calculations has found that they may have some at the...
A glimpse at Greenland's deep-sea ecosystems threatened...
Halibut fishing off the coast of Greenland uses heavy equipment dragged along the sea floor, which can cause irreversible harm to ...