3D-printed implant mends broken legs by turning into real bone
20 December 2017
Metal plates and pins for broken bones could be a thing of the past, with porous 3D implants as strong as the real thing used instead
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Hardy Antarctic tardigrades may be threatened by climate change
20 December 2017
Tardigrades can famously survive almost anything, including being sent into space, but the Antarctic species could face problems as a result of climate change
Fooling AI can now be done a thousand times faster
20 December 2017
By changing an image pixel by pixel, neural networks can be tricked into thinking a dog is two people skiing
Parallel universes could solve a big problem with black holes
20 December 2017
The black hole firewall paradox has been vexing physicists for years. But if quantum laws lead to the creation of other universes, the headache disappears
After crows fight they touch and preen each other to make up
20 December 2017
Carrion crows sometimes have violent squabbles over food, but afterwards the aggressor will often sit by the victim as if to console them and reconcile
Video gaming disorder to be officially recognised for first time
20 December 2017
Obsessively playing video games can be so detrimental that the World Health Organization is going to recognise it as a mental health condition
The body’s killer immune cells also feed fetuses in the womb
19 December 2017
Natural killer cells – which destroy cancer cells and pathogens – also help early fetuses grow, a finding that may lead to treatments to prevent miscarriage
Genital parasite crabs are struggling to find sex partners
19 December 2017
Parasitic crustaceans called castrator pea crabs spend most of their lives hiding in the sex organs of limpets, and that makes it difficult to find a mate
Will supersonic air travel's return be another white elephant?
18 December 2017
Fifty years after the unveiling of Concorde – the flawed, first supersonic airliner – its successors are coming. Maybe they’ll be the real deal, says Paul Marks
Why the internet's CiCo calorie count diet won't keep weight off
1 December 2017
An old dietary fad has got a fresh lease of life: Calories in-Calories out, or CiCo to its new devotees. It still doesn't add up, says Anthony Warner
