Ancient baskets and shoes reveal skill of prehistoric weavers
Well-preserved artefacts found in a Spanish cave show that advanced plant-based crafts were practised in Europe 9500 years ago
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Japan’s Resilience moon lander has crashed into the lunar surface
An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace’s Resilience probe crashed due to a malfunctioni
People around Europe have eaten seaweed for thousands of years
Traces of algae on teeth found at archaeological sites suggest that seaweeds may have been a staple part of European diets from the Mesolithic until t
Trees on city streets cope with drought by drinking from leaky pipes
Urban trees lining streets fare better in dry spells than those in parks – now it seems that leaky water pipes are the reason for their endurance
Surgeons perform the second ever pig-to-human heart transplant
The heart of a genetically modified pig has been transplanted into a man with heart disease, the second such surgery of its kind
Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveals new mysteries
More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun could be used to solve many mysteries, from the behaviour of individual particle
Ghana is the first country to approve highly effective malaria vaccine
A malaria vaccine that is 77 per cent effective in clinical trials has been approved for use in children 3 to 5 years old, the group most vulnerable t
Britain saw centuries of economic growth under Roman rule
The technologies introduced by the Romans after they conquered Britain led to the kind of economic growth seen in the industrial age
AIs will become useless if they keep learning from other AIs
If language models such as ChatGPT are trained using the outputs of other AIs, they will become heavily biased, overly simplistic and disconnected fro
Heatwaves seem to be driving severe asthma flare-ups in children
Children are more likely to be hospitalised for asthma complications during a heatwave, a problem that is expected to get worse with climate change