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The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and ...

Catching a comet in the process of falling apart is difficult, but a coincidence let astronomers see one in more detail than ...

Researchers identified nearly 10,000 websites where API keys could be found, exposing details that could let attackers access ...

Qilimanjaro is selling a relatively cheap kit with everything you need for a quantum computer – you just need to be able to ...

On Tuesday, CERN will transport antiprotons on a truck for the first time, testing the plan to deliver antimatter by road to ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

The levels of a heavy form of hydrogen in 3I/ATLAS are 30 to 40 times higher than in Earth's oceans, suggesting the comet has ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

A weather-forecasting AI was used to recommend routes for American Airlines flights between the US and Europe to reduce the ...

When you fold a flexible material such as a pancake or a tortilla, its behaviour depends on a competition between gravity and ...