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The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned

Genetic analysis suggests a form of mosquito found in urban subway systems evolved in the Middle East thousands of years ago

If you have the patience to repeatedly switch an egg between a hot and a colder pan, you'll be rewarded with an amazing taste and texture, say physicists

A remarkable plesiosaur fossil reveals that the extinct reptiles had scales like modern sea turtles, unlike the ichthyosaurs that lived during the same period

A lidar scanner has a resolution so high it can image ridges and indentations of only 1 millimetre on objects hundreds of metres away – and capture objects as distant as 1 kilometre

The risk of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth seems to be creeping up as astronomers gather more data, but does that mean we should be scrambling to prepare for an impact in 2032?

A group of male koalas were filmed grooming and playing together, in contrast to their solitary reputation, probably as a result of an unusually dense population in southern Victoria

A temporary loss of access to key datasets on levels of CO2 in the atmosphere added to concern about the potential fallout of the Trump administration’s attacks on climate science

A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across Eurasia around 5000 years ago, showing they came from a mixing of populations north of the Black Sea

Mice have neurons that can be controlled to stop them eating - and people probably have them too