Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

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As both sides of the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war attempt to claim technological supremacy, drone versus drone combat has become routine – and thanks to the ubiquity of cameras, this new kind of warfare ...

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Tests with rodents suggest an mRNA vaccine in development offers protection against three strains of Ebola virus, including ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

Women appear cognitively normal for almost three years longer than men after their brains start to develop Alzheimer’s ...

Adding olivine to the ocean could remove CO2 from the atmosphere, and a pilot project in New York state found no signs of ...

Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects ...

Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier ...

Fifty years ago, a draft of Richard Dawkins’s first book landed on book editor Michael Rodgers’s desk – and life was never ...