Moon of Saturn has an equivalent of freshwater rivers and salty oceans
The liquid hydrocarbon seas, lakes and rivers on Titan have varying compositions and signs of active tides or currents
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Genetic conflict with the fetus influences when women give birth
Longer-lasting pregnancies lead to larger babies but also riskier births, but some genes may have let women and fetuses find a middle ground
Genome of Neanderthal fossil reveals lost tribe cut off for millennia
Analysis of DNA from a Neanderthal fossil found in a French cave indicates that it belonged to a group that was isolated for more than 50,000 years
Bubbles of gas 75 times larger than our sun spotted on another star
Gas bubbles on the surface of a star have been observed for the first time in detail outside our solar system, and they are 75 times the size of our s
How your age, gender and nationality alter how you interpret emojis
An emoji that represents happiness to one person may signify a different emotion to another, with this varying according to our age, gender and nation
This robot predicts when you’re going to smile – and smiles back
An AI-powered robot named Emo watches people’s facial expressions and tries to match them, in an effort to make robots more relatable
Hunter-gatherers in Tanzania have incredibly diverse gut microbiomes
The huge diversity of the gut microbiome of Hadza hunter-gatherers from Tanzania hints at how industrialisation has influenced the variety of people’s
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
Worms team up to form tentacles when they want to go places
Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on larger animals
Two sneaky viruses may be messing with honeybee flight
The deformed wing and sacbrood viruses were thought to cause asymptomatic infections in adult bees. But the viruses make the insects fly slower and fa