What is the most-used Beatles song in academic paper titles?
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Why don’t dogs look up when a low-flying plane passes overhead? part 4
Yet more readers share their insights from their own four-legged friends – and one proposes a more general theory
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Do olfactory illusions exist, similar to optical and audio illusions?
Readers sense this type of illusion does exist – and send in their personal experiences
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Why can’t we cool water as quickly as we can heat it?
Our readers send in their thoughts – and one reveals they hold a Guinness World Record
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Emily St. John Mandel is back with a stunning sci-fi trip to a parallel world
Exit Party opens in a near-future Los Angeles just out of curfew, where two women attend a party that gets stranger by…
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How older siblings may shape sexual orientation via mother’s immune system
It has long been observed that men with older brothers are more likely to be gay, but an association has also been…
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Human organoids restore cognition in mice with half a brain
Mice with half a brain experienced significant improvements in their cognition and movement when they received brain…
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Xand van Tulleken on the 3 wellness trends to be most wary of
The wellness boom has brought a wide array of consumer products that promise to boost your health and happiness. Xand…
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Humpback whale mother with stillborn calf shows ‘grief-like’ behaviour
For the first time, researchers have seen a humpback mother interacting with her stillborn calf, reporting that she…
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Why The Ambidextrous Universe is a masterpiece of science writing
Don’t read The Ambidextrous Universe unless you are serious about maths and physics, because Martin Gardner is very…
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Nuclear fusion experiment produces the brightest X-rays on Earth yet
A new twist on nuclear fusion ignition emitted X-rays that are as bright as some stars, which could enable other…
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Wild chimpanzees teach youngsters by handing them tools
Adult chimpanzees have been observed passing tools to their younger relatives, helping them learn the skills needed for…
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The Parthenon’s architectural illusions are a myth
Optical illusions thought to have influenced the design of the Parthenon in ancient Greece are not backed up by…
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We may finally have a way to rate a quantum computer’s usefulness
Determining how useful different quantum computers are has been a long running challenge – now researchers appear to…
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Roman roads weren’t so straight after all
Detailed data on the Roman Empire’s entire road network is offering fresh insight into how Romans built their…
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How better ways of screening drugs could soon lead to thousands fewer animal tests
Scientists can now get more accurate safety data by testing drugs on organ-on-a-chip devices and organoids, meaning…
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LSD could be approved for anxiety in the US in 2027
The psychedelic drug LSD eased anxiety in a late-stage trial, paving the way for a probable approval in the US within…
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A new biography of Stephen Hawking gets to grips with a complicated man
Graham Farmelo has written the first authorised biography of the famous physicist. He should be applauded for digging…
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How I made a slime mould the protagonist of my new sci-fi novel
How do you get the science right in a sci-fi book? Columnist Annalee Newitz started by asking many kinds of researchers…
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One of the fundamental forces is stronger than we thought
The most precise calculation yet of the electroweak force could help fix cracks in the standard model of particle…
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Reading for pleasure boosts memory, empathy and mental health
Fewer people are reading for pleasure, but getting lost in a good book has repeatedly been linked to substantial…
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Brain implant lets people with paralysis speak and gesture at the same time
Previous brain implants have enabled people with paralysis to either speak or move, but a new, larger one let them do…
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Jet-powered drones pose a new threat to Ukraine – can they be stopped?
Ukraine is racing to design faster, more capable interceptor drones to tackle Russia's new generation of jet-powered…
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We’ve long thought that time has only one dimension. What if we’re wrong?
A second dimension of time has long seemed wholly incompatible with reality. But fresh insights involving black holes…
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Scientists call for ‘emergency’ measures to save sea life from El Niño
Reducing fishing quotas, rescuing endangered species from the water and testing geoengineering could help soften ocean…
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Why is everyone suddenly worried about the risks of AI?
AI experts put the chance of models rising up and killing us all at greater than 10 per cent – but are the risks real?…
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Two bizarre new forms of ice discovered that could exist deep inside planets
Crushing water to pressures in the millions of atmospheres has revealed two strange types of ice, which may form deep…
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The cosmic coincidences that made our universe – and us – possible
The sun and moon are positioned just right for us to see total solar eclipses, and the make-up of the universe is just…
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SpaceXAI data centre may have led to Mississippi air pollution spike
Elon Musk firm’s Colossus 2 data centre – the largest in the US – has been spewing out nitrogen oxide emissions from…
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Earliest alligator flourished in the wake of the dinosaur extinction
Just a few hundred thousand years after an asteroid wiped out most dinosaurs, large alligators were thriving in North…
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AI is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to mathematics
Mathematicians now have a formidable tool for breaking open challenging problems, but working out how best to use it…
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How to build powerful microhabits for your wellbeing – and keep them
Research shows that short practices of mindfulness are as good as, if not better than, long ones. Columnist David…
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Natural feedbacks will warm world an extra 20 per cent this century
Ecosystems like wetlands emit more carbon as temperatures rise. By 2100, such feedback loops will increase warming by…
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We may finally know what kick-starts muscle contractions in childbirth
An influx of immune cells into the uterus may be what initiates childbirth. These grab on to muscle cells via tiny…
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Gamma ray burst may have been two supernovae in one
A group of astronomers proposes that a series of events in a distant galaxy formed both a black hole and a pulsar, but…
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Exquisite 66-million-year-old bird feather preserved in dinosaur dropping
A dinosaur, possibly a young Tyrannosaurus rex, excreted a bird 66 million years ago, and one of its feathers is…
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