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Interacting with animals seems to provide emotional support to young people with a serious illness, even when the contact is via letters and not face to face

An octopus will work with several different species of fish to find and catch prey - and punch those that aren't helping

Ancient DNA extracted from layers of sediment in a Czech forest shows how a drop in biodiversity coincided with a shift to pig herding about 4000 years ago

Field trials indicate that pumping seawater onto the snow on top of Arctic sea ice can make the ice thicker, offering a possible way to preserve sea ice throughout the summer

Uterus transplants are becoming more common, opening up the possibility of pregnancy and parenthood to people with certain health conditions

The new interconnected breed of autocrats gains and retains power by deception, globally undermining democracies through their own institutions

Cave fish develop taste buds on their head and below their chin—and even in humans, taste cells grow in truly unexpected locations

This week’s news roundup explores how the brain is affected by pregnancy, the way “scuba diving” lizards breathe underwater, and much more.

CAPTCHA tests are supposed to distinguish humans from bots, but an AI system mastered the problem after training on thousands of images of road scenes

A new covid-19 variant called XEC may spread more easily than past variants, but current vaccines are still effective against it

A sprawling research program aims to improve hurricane forecasts by collecting data at the chaotic interface of ocean and atmosphere

Forest loss is thought to have played a part in record low rainfall across South America this year, in a sign that environmental destruction is accelerating climate collapse

Medically evacuating an astronaut from space is difficult and expensive, and a new model predicts that one in three long-duration moon missions may require it

Certain values carry more weight in spring and autumn than in summer and winter

Scientists are putting a new spin on the creation of binary asteroids

As a six-year investigation into the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica wraps up, the scientists involved are pessimistic for the future of this glacier and the consequences for sea level rise

Mathematics communicator and drag queen Kyne will help you discover the beauty and power of math in this miniseries.

Genetic analysis shows that microbes growing inside the International Space Station have adaptations for radiation and low gravity, and may pose a threat to astronauts

Making hydrogen from seawater can be tricky because the salt is corrosive and the process can create toxic chlorine gas – new electrodes can split ocean water to make the clean fuel more easily

Nearly imperceptible quantum flickers used to limit how precisely we could detect the way space-time ripples, but squeezing the laser light used in detectors overcomes this and doubles the number of gravitational waves we can see