The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

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A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Start-up Nord Quantique ...

The failure of SpaceX’s ninth Starship launch has raised fresh concerns about the future of the rocket, but is there any ...

Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

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Antioxidants like cocoa flavanols may benefit heart health, brain ageing and the microbiome. Columnist Alexandra Thompson ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, showing our star as we’ve never seen it before ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...