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How deliberately giving people illnesses is superc...
The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers ...
Planned satellite launches could ruin Hubble Space...
More than half a million satellites are planned to launch by the end of the 2030s, and simulations s...
Forming moon may have taken three big impacts earl...
Conventionally, the moon is thought to have formed during one big impact, but a three-impact model m...
Ancient human artefacts found near caves in Arabia...
Today, the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable – but 100,000 years ago, the area was f...
Why quantum mechanics says the past isn’t real
The famous double-slit experiment brings into question the very nature of matter. Its cousin, the qu...
Black hole entropy hints at a surprising truth abo...
Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and ...
Can viral relationship tests really tell you about...
Is there any science to viral relationship tests like the bird test, the orange peel theory and the ...
Asteroid Bennu carries all the ingredients for lif...
We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molec...
What would Russia's inability to launch crewed mis...
Russia's only launch site capable of sending humans to orbit has suffered serious damage that may ta...
Coral reefs have fuelled severe global warming in ...
Over the past 250 million years, periods when coral reef growth has peaked have coincided with big r...
We now have a greater understanding of how exercis...
Tumour growth is reduced by exercise due to a shift in the body’s metabolism that means muscle cells...
A sinister, deadly brain protein could reveal the ...
We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surp...
Man unexpectedly cured of HIV after stem cell tran...
A handful of people with HIV have been cured after receiving HIV-resistant stem cells – but a man wh...
The best new science fiction books of December 202...
From a new collection of shorter fiction by Brandon Sanderson to Simon Stålenhag’s new work, via a S...
Was a little-known culture in Bronze Age Turkey a ...
Archaeologists have gathered evidence from hundreds of Bronze Age sites in western Turkey that could...
Ancient humans took two routes to Australia 60,000...
Scientists have long tried to uncover the perilous journey humans took to reach the ancient land mas...
Why Google’s custom AI chips are shaking up the te...
Google is reportedly in talks to sell its tensor processing units – a type of computer chip speciall...
Upheavals to the oral microbiome in pregnancy may ...
Dental problems often arise or get worse during pregnancy, and a new study hints that rapid changes ...
