We keep finding water on Mars – here are all the places it might be
Researchers recently found a possible reservoir of liquid water more than 11 kilometres below Mars’s surface – the latest in a long series of potentia
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Anti-inflammatory drug extended the lifespan of mice by 20 per cent
A drug that inhibits inflammation helped mice live longer and reduced the animals’ incidence of cancer and age-related health problems
Fertiliser can be made from human urine in just a few simple steps
Urine is rich in nitrogen, which is important for plant growth, and now scientists have found an efficient way of utilising this to make human wastewa
Humans evolved to survive mild burns at the expense of severe ones
Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the selection of genes that heal mild ones, which could b
Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like
A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown in colour, which would hav
Gold can be heated to 14 times its melting point without melting
With fast heating, sheets of gold can shoot past the theoretical maximum temperature a solid can have before it melts – raising questions about what t
Baby pterosaurs could fly right after hatching – but crashed in storms
Two fossils found in Germany show very young pterodactyls with arm bones thought to have been broken in flight, probably because of severe tropical cy