Blood-thinning drug heparin may stop snakebite victims losing limbs
Giving mice the blood-thinning drug heparin after they were injected with venom from two cobra species reduced their risk of…
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Life’s vital chemistry may have begun in hot, cracked rock
Amino acids and other molecules important to the origin of life can be enriched within networks of rocky fractures, which…
Testing drugs on mini-cancers in the lab may reveal best treatment
Exposing miniature versions of tumours to different drugs in the lab helped children with advanced cancer live for longer in…
Elon Musk asks court to decide if GPT-4 has human-level intelligence
As part of a lawsuit against OpenAI, billionaire Elon Musk has asked a court to determine whether GPT-4 is an…
ChatGPT wrote code that can make databases leak sensitive information
Six AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were exploited to write code capable of damaging commercial databases – although OpenAI appears…
What is the June solstice and what causes it?
21 June is the summer solstice, or longest day, in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice, or shortest day,…
Swapping table salt for a potassium alternative cuts blood pressure
A study in care homes found that preparing meals with potassium-enriched salt, instead of regular salt, lowered the blood pressure…
Caffeine linked to lower BMI and reduced risk of type 2 diabetes
Genetic differences in how people metabolise caffeine may influence how overweight they are, but this doesn't mean drinking more coffee…
Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveals new mysteries
More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun could be used to solve many mysteries,…
We could make solar panels on the moon by melting lunar dust
Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within –…