Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping ...

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Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down ...

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Kazuo Ishiguro’s heartbreaking dystopian novel of young love and organ donation has been superbly adapted for the stage ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

In the first hearing test of live baleen whales, the animals detected much higher frequency sounds than expected, forcing ...

Endangered Ethiopian wolves feed on the nectar of red hot poker plants, and may transport pollen from flower to flower as ...

Analysis of millions of galaxies upholds Albert Einstein’s ideas about gravity and also offers tantalising new hints of how ...

Spaghetti strands that are 200 times thinner than a human hair could be woven into bandages to help prevent infections ...

Growing wood directly from stem cells could offer an alternative to cutting threatened hardwood trees, but it isn't clear if ...