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When you're prospecting for gold, sometimes you can find treasure of a different kind.That's what happened in the desert of Western Australia, where geologists looking for deposits of the precious metal found something far rarer.What…

Nuclear fallout events, whether triggered deliberately or accidentally, are something we hope will never happen.But if they do, understanding the consequences is a crucial part of safety planning and disaster management.With that in…

People have been consuming tobacco for millennia, though it wasn't until the late 1820s that nicotine was first extracted from tobacco plants.Now, 200 years later, scientists have finally discovered how the tobacco plant makes those…

The key to heart health isn't cutting down on pasta or potatoes, new evidence suggests; it's not even a low-fat diet.The research suggests the focus of healthy eating shouldn't necessarily be on what's being excluded from your diet…

We may have accidentally detected dark matter back in 2019.This potentially history-making discovery could be lurking in existing data from gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of spacetime itself.Physicists from the US, UK,…

A cataclysmic volcanic eruption is one of the most violent and disruptive things our planet can do.Vast clouds of ash and gas burst into the atmosphere, while blisteringly hot molten rock surges upward and rolls across the surface,…

Hundreds of millions of years ago, our world looked very different from the way it does today.The continents were joined together in a supercontinent called Pangea, which broke apart into landmasses that drifted away from each other…

Up until the 1970s or so, the human brain was assumed to be 'hardwired' like a computer, its neural networks remaining fixed throughout adulthood.In reality, this incredible organ can reinvent itself time and time again.Like Taylor…

The motion of galaxy clusters in the distant Universe has just yielded the largest-scale test yet of the laws of gravity.Across scales that span hundreds of millions of light-years, gravity continues to behave the way Isaac Newton…

A strange mouse study suggests that the brain isn't a 'blank slate' at birth, waiting for memories to be written onto it.Instead, it appears to start life 'full' and messy, optimizing itself as it learns.Neuroscientists at the…