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Category: Science
Quick saliva test can reveal cannabis use over the past...
A sample of saliva placed on a strip and analysed with a smartphone camera can reveal if a person has ingested cannabis in the las...
99-million-year-old crab discovered trapped inside ambe...
A 99-million-year-old crab trapped in amber might show us when the shelled animals moved into freshwater
UK plans £5000 grants for heat pumps ahead of gas boile...
Under the UK’s long-delayed Heat and Buildings Strategy, households in England and Wales will be encouraged to shift from gas boil...
Extinct Japanese wolf is the closest wild relative of d...
The extinct Japanese wolf is not the direct ancestor of dogs but its DNA shows it is more closely related to those ancestors than ...
Impaled turtle reveals new insight on the day the dinos...
A controversial fossil site claimed to preserve a scene of destruction from the day the dinosaurs died seems to show the even happ...
UK university climate targets strongly criticised for l...
A group of 140 UK universities says it will cut its carbon emissions by 78 per cent by 2035 and hit net zero by 2050, but critics ...
Nearly every person in Iran seems to have had covid-19 ...
An analysis of covid-19 infections among Iranian people casts further doubt on the idea that herd immunity can be achieved without...
UK net zero strategy under fire for failure to show car...
The UK's net zero strategy does not detail any of the anticipated emissions savings that will stem from action on homes, transport...
This koala was first to be vaccinated against chlamydia...
Shano was the first of 200 koalas to receive a chlamydia vaccine that may help curb an epidemic that is ravaging koala populations...
Microsoft and Nvidia build largest ever AI to mimic hum...
An artificial intelligence with more than 530 billion parameters - the largest ever - has achieved record scores at understanding ...
IVF embryos discarded as 'abnormal' can actually become...
One in four embryos made via IVF contain some seemingly abnormal cells and are typically considered too risky to use, but new rese...
The Trick review: How the Climategate scandal rocked th...
The Trick on the BBC is a dramatisation of the Climategate scandal, when researchers were wrongly accused of faking evidence of gl...