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Spider venom proved to be harmful to mites, but not to bees
20:00, 04.07.2026

Spider venom could be used as a weapon against the mite that kills bees

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Mykola Potyka
Scientists have discovered what the first inhabitants of the Americas ate
18:00, 04.07.2026

The first inhabitants of the Americas may have crossed two continents by hunting giants

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Mykola Potyka
Scientists have observed a worrying dependence of dolphins on trawlers
23:00, 03.07.2026

Dolphins are increasingly feeding near fishing boats — and that’s a bad sign

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Mykola Potyka
Scientists have found an unusual explanation for the intelligence of octopuses
22:00, 03.07.2026

Why do octopuses have such large brains?

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Mykola Potyka
A 518-million-year-old fossil has shed light on the origin of spider fangs
20:00, 03.07.2026

An ancient marine predator has helped explain where spiders’ fangs come from

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Mykola Potyka
The super-Earth GJ 3378 b has become an interesting target in the search for life
19:00, 03.07.2026

A planet has been discovered 25 light-years from Earth, where the search for life will begin

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Mykola Potyka
CT scans have shown that the crocodile’s brain has remained virtually unchanged over millions of years of evolution
23:00, 30.06.2026

The crocodile’s brain has remained virtually unchanged for 100 million years

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Mykola Potyka
Scientists have found a new way to detect solar storms in advance
22:32, 30.06.2026

Scientists are getting closer to being able to predict solar storms more accurately

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Mykola Potyka
Antarctica’s first dinosaur has turned out to be a titanosaur
19:00, 30.06.2026

Scientists have described the first dinosaur found in Antarctica

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Mykola Potyka
Swiss glaciers have shrunk
23:00, 29.06.2026

Switzerland has marked ‘Glacier Loss Day’: what does this mean?

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Mykola Potyka
NASA is set to pay $30 million to save an old space telescope
20:00, 29.06.2026

NASA is trying to prevent the Swift telescope from crashing into Earth

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Mykola Potyka
Scientists have linked the melting of the Pine Island Glacier to human activity
19:00, 29.06.2026

Humans have accelerated the melting of one of Antarctica’s most important glaciers

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Mykola Potyka
The giant Megalodon shark grew to 24 metres: scientists have confirmed its size
18:27, 29.06.2026

Scientists have confirmed the size of the megalodon: the ancient shark grew to 24 metres

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Mykola Potyka
NASA has shown how El Niño is intensifying in the Pacific Ocean
23:00, 24.06.2026

El Niño has begun

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Mykola Potyka
A ‘quantum rim’ has been discovered around black holes
22:00, 24.06.2026

Physicists have described the invisible edge of a black hole

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Mykola Potyka
An asteroid struck the young Earth 3 billion years ago
21:00, 24.06.2026

Traces of the earliest asteroid impact on Earth have been found in Australia

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Mykola Potyka
The Earth will remain green for longer than scientists had thought
19:00, 24.06.2026

When all plants on Earth have disappeared

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Mykola Potyka
Titan and Pluto share the same chemical mystery
20:00, 23.06.2026

A mysterious signal has been detected from the surface of Titan and Pluto

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Mykola Potyka
Nordic walking helped people with depression in five weeks
23:00, 22.06.2026

Nordic walking helped to reduce symptoms of depression

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Mykola Potyka
A new hyperparasitic fungus has been discovered in the jungles of Borneo that attacks a ‘zombie fungus’ inside a dead insect
20:00, 22.06.2026

The ‘zombie mushroom’ has an enemy

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Mykola Potyka
The ‘ears’ of the NGC 6563 nebula turned out to be older than the main body
19:00, 22.06.2026

‘Ears’ have been discovered on a cosmic nebula

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Mykola Potyka
A blind ‘microscorpion’ measuring just about 1.5 mm in length has been discovered in Australia
18:00, 19.06.2026

A tiny, eyeless ‘microscorpion’ has been found in an ancient forest in Australia

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Mykola Potyka
Why does a stick held between two people act as a makeshift handrail?
20:00, 18.06.2026

Why do two people holding onto a pole fall less often?

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Mykola Potyka
Parents help their children with maths more often than they realise
19:00, 18.06.2026

Scientists have discovered how children learn maths at home — without even realising it

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Mykola Potyka
Darwin’s long-standing puzzle has been given a new ecological explanation
20:00, 17.06.2026

Scientists have found a new explanation for Darwin’s 160-year-old mystery

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Mykola Potyka
Space as a natural psychedelic: scientists have compared weightlessness to the effects of LSD on the brain
22:00, 16.06.2026

Gravity holds not only the body but also the mind — what happens when it disappears

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Mykola Potyka
A telescope in South Africa has detected the most distant cosmic maser ever recorded
23:00, 15.06.2026

Astronomers have detected a signal that has been travelling towards Earth for over 8 billion years

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Mykola Potyka

Latest news

23:00
24.08.26

Human brain cells survived for years in a petri dish — and continued to develop on schedule

22:00
24.08.26

As we get older, our brains change — but our ability to understand speech remains virtually unaffected

21:00
24.08.26

Scientists got strangers to paint together — and six weeks later, they discovered a strange effect

20:00
24.08.26

In Japan, enormous vessels were used for everything from cooking to burial — scientists have uncovered their history

19:00
24.08.26

Mysterious symbols have been found on 9,000-year-old arrowheads — no one understands what they mean

18:00
24.08.26

6,500 years ago, a human tooth was turned into a piece of jewellery — it was found in Serbia

14:30
23.08.26

How many Ukrainians have been granted protection in Poland since 2022: data from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

13:00
23.08.26

Zelenskyy stated that Kyiv remains Putin’s main target and spoke about preparations for a harsh winter

15:00
22.08.26

Germany is to provide Ukraine with a new aid package worth tens of millions of euros

12:00
22.08.26

Russia has received new weapons from North Korea: which regions of Ukraine could be at risk

23:00
21.08.26

For 30 years, archaeologists thought these bones were from cows — it turned out they were from a bear and a wild boar

22:00
21.08.26

Archaeologists have discovered a 3,200-year-old ‘brand’

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