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Pollutants endanger native bats

The population of bat colonies in Europe has been steadily declining for decades. A new study on the lesser horseshoe bat shows that...

Early Islamic tombs in the Levant

View of the excavation site in Syria © Jonathan Santana At what is supposed to be a prehistoric site in Syria, archaeologists have found two...

Very special polar bears discovered in Greenland

They are genetically very different from polar bears elsewhere on the planet and can survive in the absence of sea ice. Scientists have discovered...

Possibly one of the youngest neutron stars ever discovered!

The object—which may well be the successor to the famous Crab Nebula—may be only fourteen years old. A neutron star is the remnant of...

Two planets discovered around nearby star

These are two rocky planets the size of Earth, located just 33 light-years away. Astronomers have discovered two rocky planets in our own 'cosmic...

Record-breaking fast nova keeps people busy

The unusual nova, which died out in less than a day, could lead us to answer some big questions about the formation of...

Interstellar travel without a starship: aliens might do it!

Aliens may not travel in starships, but on complete but lonely planets through interstellar space. Professor Irina Mullins comes up with this idea in...

Targeting bacterial intimacies

Artist's rendering of bacteria finding their conjugation partners. © Imperial College London “Bacterial sex” plays an important role in the spread of antibiotic resistance....

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