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Christmas tree syndrome: why the festive evergreen can make your nose run – and what you can do about it
These health issues are trigged by the allergens that normally reside in live Christmas trees. voronaman/ Shutterstock Samuel…
Scientists have been researching superconductors for over a century, but they have yet to find one that works at room temperature − 3 essential reads
The search for the room-temperature superconductor continues. Charles O’Rear/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images Mary Magnuson, The Conversation If…
New unified theory shows how past landscapes drove the evolution of Earth’s rich diversity of life
Tristan Salles, University of Sydney; Beatriz Hadler Boggiani, University of Sydney; Laurent Husson, Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), and…
Massive planet too big for its own sun pushes astronomers to rethink exoplanet formation
LHS 3154b, a newly discovered massive planet that should be too big to exist. The Pennsylvania State University…
Everybody has a spider story, but these amazing creatures are often misunderstood
Andrew Walker, The University of Queensland The comedian Jimeoin once wrote a song titled Everybody’s Got a Spider…
Thalidomide survivors are receiving an apology for the pharmaceutical disaster that changed pregnancy medicine
Luke Grzeskowiak, Flinders University and Hannah Jackson, University of Technology Sydney Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will deliver a…
Honeybees cluster together when it’s cold – but we’ve been completely wrong about why
Smit/Shutterstock Derek Mitchell, University of Leeds Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for…
Earth’s magnetic field protects life on Earth from radiation, but it can move, and the magnetic poles can even flip
The Earth’s magnetic field deflects particles emitted by the Sun. Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library via Getty Images Ofer…
Ultratrails, deep dives, outer space: how extraordinary personalities adapt to extreme conditions
Benoît Bolmont, Université de Lorraine and Michel Nicolas, Université de Bourgogne – UBFC `Kilian Jornet won the 2022…
Faced with dwindling bee colonies, scientists are arming queens with robots and smart hives
Farshad Arvin, Durham University; Martin Stefanec, University of Graz, and Tomas Krajnik, Czech Technical University Be it the…