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Breathing out after birth switches off the ability of tissues to regenerate, a study in mice suggests. But the pathway seems ...

Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, who is celebrated in today’s Google doodle, was the discoverer of caffeine and the first person to isolate quinine, but his contribution to chemistry is often overlooked. He ...

My lovely father died of Alzheimer's last year, and since then, I've been digging into the disease to try to understand what ...

The BBC has another game-changing hit in Blue Planet III, says Michael Le Page, with David Attenborough narrating and a smart ...

It’s 2030. Heatwaves are scorching parts of the globe, while elsewhere, hailstorms or tsunamis ravage homes, cities and ...

Often described as a genius, physicist Sabrina Pasterski built and flew her own plane by the age of 16 and is now developing ...

AI firms can increase the power of their chatbots without updating to new models. Columnist Jacob Aron explains how a simple ...

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s look at the disgraced founder of Theranos, You Can See Everything, had Grace Wade on the ...

A spinal cord transplant happened in people for the first time during a surgery in Russia, but the evidence underpinning it ...