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on 2021-05-06

Settlements and charcoal deposits along Africa’s Lake Malawi reveals humans used fire 92,000 years ago to prevent forest regrowth, allowing them to create homes for a growing population.

on 2021-05-06

Virtual Telescope Project captured the first image of China’s Long March 5B rocket as it soared 435 miles above Earth’s surface. The rocket was moving fast and appeared like a bright light.

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About the size of a chicken, the weird bird-like dinosaur had some of the proportionally largest pupils ever measured in dinosaurs or modern-day birds, researchers report.

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How sharks navigate thousands of miles to return to the same breeding ground every year has mystified scientists for 50 years, with experiments difficult to run.

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Remains found on King William Island, Nunavut, have now been matched to a living individual, confirming the body is that of Warrant Officer John Gregory, an engineer on HMS Erebus.

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Compared with men of similar age, women were triaged less urgently, waited longer to be seen, and were less likely to undergo basic tests or be hospitalised, researchers found.

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Researchers found the first human remains after a few weeks of digging in a ravine in Granada, saying they could belong to three or four people shot between August and October 1936.

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Developed by experts from China, the device switches from pink to green in the presence of the amine vapours released by microbes when fish and shrimp spoil.

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Visually, they are hardly distinguishable, according to LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics scientists, who carried out the genetic analyses.

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Researchers have linked moderate alcohol intake – no more than one alcoholic drink for women and two for men per day – with a 20 per cent lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease.

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Researchers in South Korea report the highest laser intensity ever to be reached. The new milestone of 1023 W/cm2 has been pursued by experts globally for more than 15 years.

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Researchers found that male patients with a common biomarker linked to hair loss appeared to be significantly more susceptive to severe coronavirus infections. Pictured: actor Bruce Willis

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Researchers outfitted green turtles with trackers to see how they spend their ‘lost years’ between hatching and returning to the coast as juveniles. It turns out they high-tail it to the Sargasso Sea.

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Researchers have named an ant found in Ecuador ‘Strumigenys ayersthey’. The ‘they’ suffix at the end of its name is in recognition of all non-binary people, the scientists say.

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SpaceX launched and landed its Starship SN15 Wed, making it the first prototype to survive a high altitude test. The rocket hit six miles in the air, performed the flip and landed back on the pad.

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The feature, which has rolled out for English-speaking Twitter users on iOS and Android, asks users to think before publishing ‘a potentially harmful reply’.

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Met Office forecasters warn of showers and cloud cover for much of the UK, however, they expect some clear patches to break through overnight.

on 2021-05-06

Trendy ‘logs’ for woodburning stoves made from coffee, bamboo, wine and other are more polluting than traditional firewood, according to new research.

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In a series of experiments, cats were more interested in sitting in a square, even if it was an optical illusion, than in other shapes. Researchers believe the squares remind them of the security of boxes

on 2021-05-05

Researchers claim that images from Mars taken by NASA rovers and orbiting spaceships appear to show fungus-like specimens emerging from the Martian soil.

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An oil lamp used by Jewish pilgrims 2,000 years ago is found in the City of David. The lamp is ‘shaped like a grotesque face’ and was lit in ritual ceremonies to pray for good fortune.

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A marble head of Roman emperor Augustus was uncovered during restoration to city walls in Isernia, Italy. It bears the ‘swallow-tail’ hairstyle and protruding ears associated with Augustus.

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Researchers analysed the remains of 44 turtles found washed up dead on coastlines in eastern Spain – finding traces of plastics in each one.

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Austrian computer scientists have created a shoe that pings vibrations to the wearer to warn them that an obstacle is nearby.

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A study found imprinting raw pasta with grooves in a specific pattern allows them to be stored flat but morph into various classical pasta arrangements when served.

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Timing of labour is currently estimated imprecisely but scientists have now created a blood test which indicates the ‘pre-labour’ stage two to four weeks before a baby is born.

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A survey of 13,000 teenagers in England, the Netherlands and Sweden asked them to list the five most popular students in their class. Researchers then analysed popularity against age.

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Stripping out polymers that block light from passing through wood and replacing them with a derivative from citrus peels Swedish scientists created a transparent composite that could replace glass.

on 2021-05-05

Researchers studied data on the sleep habits and cardiovascular health of more than 14,000 people – looking to see who died from heart problems.

on 2021-05-05

The grave of a three-year-old child who lived 78,000 years ago in what is now Kenya has been found and is thought to be the earliest known burial of a human in Africa.