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Rumours that sperm counts are falling 'is a load of balls'

Tech June 5, 2024

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Children born deaf now dancing to music after 'astounding' treatment

Tech June 5, 2024

Human brain scan in neurology clinic

Early-onset Alzheimer's almost guaranteed with certain genes

Tech May 7, 2024

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Scientists reveal the one life-saving exercise everyone has time for

Tech April 28, 2024

*EMBARGOED UNTIL 05.15 BST, FRI APRIL 19 (00.15 ET)* Juvenile great white shark viewed from a boat. Baby sharks prefer swimming in shallow water, reveals new research. Just like young humans, junior great whites prefer to stay close to the shore. Now, marine scientists have shown for the first time that juvenile great white sharks select warm and shallow waters to gather within a few hundred yards of the coast. They say their findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, are important for conservation of the apex marine predators - especially as ocean temperatures increase due to climate change ? and for protecting the public from potentially lethal attacks.

Baby sharks doo doo doo doo doo like to be near the beach

Tech April 19, 2024

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Breast cancer breakthrough could stop 'hibernating' cells causing relapses

Tech March 26, 2024

EMBARGOED TO 1600 WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 7 Undated handout photo issued by the journal Nature of an artist's impression of Mimas, Saturn's smallest and innermost moon. Astronomers believe liquid water formed on Mimas, the planet's smallest and innermost moon, somewhere between five to 15 million years ago, making it much younger than Earth's oceans, which are thought to be more than four billion years old. Issue date: Wednesday February 7, 2024. PA Photo. Mimas is often compared to the Death Star from the Star Wars franchise because of its large Herschel Crater, which resembles the hollowed-out shape of the fictional space station's laser weapon. See PA story SCIENCE Mimas. Photo credit should read: Frederic Durillon/Animea Studio/Paris Observatory/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Alien life could be hiding deep inside Saturn's 'Death Star' moon

Tech February 8, 2024

Human ashes and JFK DNA will crash back to Earth tonight after Moon fail

Tech January 18, 2024

Fig. 7. Reconstruction of T. koprii gen et sp. nov. in the pelagic ecosystem preserved in Sirius Passet. Other taxa shown in the foreground are Kiisortoqia, Siricaris, Kerygmachela, Pauloterminus, Kleptothule, and Isoxys. Further in the background is two radiodonts: Tamisiocaris and an amplectobeluid. Artwork by Robert Nicholls/BobNichollsArt.

A surprising – and slightly gross – 'terror beast' once ruled the oceans

Tech January 4, 2024

500-year-old painting by 'grand master' isn't all it seems

Tech December 21, 2023

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Three crucial factors children need to grow tall (and it's not just a good diet)

Tech September 18, 2023

Artist's conception of a Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) -- a star being shredded by the powerful gravity of a supermassive black hole. Material from the star spirals into a disk rotating around the black hole, and a jet of particles is ejected.

Scientists find 'missing link' of how black holes disrupt orbiting stars

Tech September 7, 2023

organ transplant surgery

Human kidneys grown in pig embryos a major step for organ transplants

Tech September 7, 2023

*EMBARGOED UNTIL 19.00 BST, TUES AUG 15 (14.00 ET)* Recorded the neural activity of 29 intracranial patients (middle panel) listening to the classic Pink Floyd song Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 (left panel, excerpt of the original song spectrogram). Using nonlinear models, we could successfully reconstruct a recognisable song from these direct cortical recordings (right panel, reconstructed spectrogram). See SWNS story SWSCfloyd. A recognisable version of a classic Pink Floyd track has been made from brain activity recorded while people listened to the song. Scientists say the state of the art technique used to make the most far out 'remix' yet of Another Brick in the Wall also identified a new brain region necessary for perceiving musical rhythm.And they say their findings, published in the journal PLOS Biology, could be beneficial for the development of higher quality prosthetic limbs. The phrase "All in all it was just a brick in the wall" comes through recognisably in the reconstructed song.

Mind-reading AI recreates Pink Floyd classic from listener's thoughts

Tech August 16, 2023

Neuron system disease

AI breakthrough boosts hope for Parkinson's treatment

Tech August 10, 2023

EMBARGOED TO 1600 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 9 Undated handout photo issued by NASA of Mars which may have once had wet and dry seasons like those on Earth conducive to the emergence of life, scientists have said. Researchers have discovered fossil evidence suggesting the red planet had a cyclical climate more than three billion years ago. Issue date: Wednesday August 9, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story SCIENCE Mars. Photo credit should read: ESA/Nasa/Hubble Space Telescope/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

Discovery on Mars suggests Red Planet could have been home to alien life

Tech August 24, 2023

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Struggling with depression? Eat a handful of a common kitchen ingredient

Tech August 9, 2023

Diverse young teenage students having fun using mobile phone in college campus

Facebook 'not bad for wellbeing' – in fact it's good, says Oxford University

Tech August 9, 2023

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Where you live decides your quality of sleep

Tech August 7, 2023

EMBARGOED TO 1400 TUESDAY JULY 25 Undated handout photo issued by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) of the young star V960 Mon, located over 5000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Issue date: Tuesday July 25, 2023. PA Photo. Scientists have observed large dusty clumps close to a young star around 5,000-light years away from Earth, providing insight into how planets are born. A team of international scientists used telescopes belonging to the European Southern Observatory - intergovernmental research organisation - to analyse stellar material surrounding V960 Mon in the constellation Monoceros. See PA story SCIENCE Dust. Photo credit should read: ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO/Weber/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

'Astounding' discovery unravels great mystery of the universe

Tech July 25, 2023