Watch a weird robot wiggle and flap like a seal moving on land
A four-legged robot has been designed to imitate the bouncing and lunging motion of a seal on land, but struggles…
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Neanderthals had a ‘fat factory’ where they processed bones for grease
An ancient human site in Germany features animal bones that were smashed into small pieces and heated to extract fat…
Mystery of the potato’s origins solved by genetics
Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant called Etuberosum, and…
People who had severe covid-19 show cognitive decline years later
An analysis of people who were hospitalised with covid-19 in the first wave of the pandemic has revealed that the…
We finally know why live music makes us so emotional
Hearing live music tugs at our heartstrings more than a recording, probably because it increases activity in an emotion-processing region…
Mounting evidence shows daily multivitamins keep you sharp as you age
A third study has shown that older people who take a daily multivitamin do better on memory tests than those…
These images are the first time we have seen the sun’s south pole
The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into…
How to see the Orionid meteor shower in October and November
The Orionids are flashes of light that appear in the sky every year when Earth passes through debris from Halley’s…
Women’s pelvises are shrinking – how is that changing childbirth?
Over the past 150 years, the rise in Caesarean sections and changes in diet could have led to smaller pelvises…
Targeted mRNA delivery will lead to cheaper cures for many diseases
A technique for delivering mRNAs to blood stem cells should enable better and cheaper treatments for conditions from sickle cell…