Starfish have hundreds of feet but no brain – here's how they move
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system
Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system
Modelling that shows how the world can remain below 1.5°C of warming assumes we can store vast amounts of carbon dioxide underground, but a new analysis reveals that achieving this is extremely unlikely
A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead Planets Society our hosts are willing to go to extremes, from faster-than-light bombs to time travel
20 years’ worth of environmental samples reveal up to 80% exceed drinking water standards
Remote-controlled cockroaches with computers mounted on their backs can move as a swarm towards a target location, and could be used for search missions
Our cognitive biases can make it difficult to choose what’s best for science
A black hole 33 times the mass of the sun is the largest stellar black hole ever spotted, and its strange companion star could help explain how it got so huge
Meteorites suggest cataclysmic “instability” occurred around the time of the Moon’s formation
Tools such as ChatGPT may be used for 1% to 5% of manuscripts, recent estimates suggest
Moderna’s pause on Kenya project highlights difficulties in creating a competitive vaccine sector on the continent
Massive trial shows monitor lizards will learn to avoid toxic and invasive adult toads after tasting less dangerous juveniles
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