The culture that built Stonehenge suffered a mysterious population declineWirestock, Inc./Alamy The Neolithic culture in Europe that produced megastructures such as Stonehenge went into a major decline around 5400 years ago. Now we have the best evidence yet that this...
We may be closer to understanding one of the mysteries of breastfeedingSvetlana Repnitskaya/Getty Images A newly discovered hormone in mice may solve the long-standing mystery of how adult bones stay strong during the stress of breastfeeding. The finding could lead...
We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the axes on which we navigate the world. When we try to imagine something else, it typically conjures images from the...
Time travelling to the middle of the 21st century, Rowan Hooper discovers scientists have developed a method of shared dreaming. Here's how it changes the world Source link...
People demonstrating outside the venue for the UK Covid-19 Inquiry in London in October 2023ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images “The UK prepared for the wrong pandemic.” That is a key conclusion from the first part of a government inquiry examining...
VIPER won’t go to the moon after allNASA A fully constructed rover that was due to blast off to the moon next year will instead be dismantled due to budgetary issues, NASA has announced – leading researchers to question whether...
If you haven’t experienced a significant loss in your life, then you are one of the lucky ones. If you have – be it a spouse, child or close friend – then you probably already know how it can feel...
Shutterstock/Marko Aliaksandr Imagine if governments around the world announced restrictions on the sale of rulers that are 34 centimetres long. You would be pretty confused, given there doesn’t seem to be anything special about that length – and 34cm rulers...
Teenage cliques can offer protection – or enforce exclusionVirginia Woods-Jack/Millennium Images, UK Coming of AgeLucy Foulkes (Bodley Head (UK); Vintage Digital (US)) In the teen movie Mean Girls, protagonist Cady Heron arrives at a US high school having grown up in...
Nut deficiency What would happen if you removed most of the nuts from the bolts on three of the four sides of a tall electrical power pylon? New data speaks to that question. Newshub reported on 24 June that a...
