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Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome
A fossil bone displaying features consistent with Down’s syndrome belonged to a Neanderthal child wh...
Why this is a golden age for life to thrive across...
Almost all the stars that will ever exist have already been born, and they have been around long eno...
Is it possible to fully understand the universe wh...
Through science, we are striving for objective knowledge about the universe around us. But physicist...
'Bridge editing' could be even better at altering ...
The CRISPR gene-editing technique has revolutionised biology, but now an even more powerful system c...
Winter ‘sauna’ helps endangered frogs fight off fu...
Warm retreats made using bricks in greenhouses give frogs a place to keep toasty in winter, which he...
Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside o...
A technique to charge a battery inside a quantum computer relies on sorting qubits in an imitation o...
Why you should feel comforted, not scared, by the ...
Some people find the scale of the universe existentially frightening, but here's why you should take...
Could paying people to lose weight help tackle obe...
Financial incentives have helped people with obesity lose weight in trials, but whether the approach...
This mind-blowing map shows Earth’s position withi...
See the circle of galaxy clusters and voids that surround us in this map of the nearby cosmos, exten...
AI reads brain activity to reveal what part of a m...
An artificial intelligence could gauge what characters and locations people were viewing in the film...
$1m prize for AI that can solve puzzles that are s...
Deducing the correct pattern that links pairs of coloured grids is relatively easy for most people, ...
Why our location in the Milky Way is perfect for f...
Our arm of the Milky Way is filled with older, metal-rich stars. New research suggests these might p...
Dangerous mpox strain spreading in Democratic Repu...
A new strain of mpox transmitted mainly by heterosexual sex has emerged in a mining town in the Demo...
AI can turn text into sign language – but it’s oft...
Researchers have developed an AI model that can translate text into sign language, but experts in De...
How big is the universe? The shape of space-time c...
We may never know what lies beyond the boundaries of the observable universe, but the fabric of the ...
Smiling robot face is made from living human skin ...
A technique for attaching a skin made from living human cells to a robotic framework could give robo...
Are space and time illusions? The answer could lie...
Whether space and time are part of the universe or they emerge from quantum entanglement is one of t...
What would happen if Earth was the centre of the s...
Geocentrism, the idea that everything in the universe revolves around Earth, has long been disproven...
