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A record-breaking new version of Starship, due to launch within days, could form the basis of NASA's ambitious Artemis ...

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People who imagine their self to reside in their head or their heart have different approaches to life. Columnist David ...

A 135-year-old chemistry law is getting a quantum makeover. An experiment with a single quantum bit, or a qubit, has uncovered that the Arrhenius equation, which describes how reaction rates relate to ...

IN JULY 1962, Michel Siffre took off his watch and descended into the abyss of Scarasson in the French Alps. There, in a cave 130 metres below the surface, he set up camp next to a glacier. With a ...

Muscle stem cells, which are crucial for building new muscle, don’t work as well as we get older, but giving them an ...

Partially burnt trees still standing after a wildfire are typically felled and burned, but a US start-up claims burying them ...

After a career spent grappling with the neural underpinnings of autism, Uta Frith is unwavering in her controversial call to ...

A Neanderthal tooth shows clear signs of human intervention to treat bacterial decay, showing that the earliest dentistry ...

The creaky noise known as vocal fry that people generally associate with young women – and some find irritating – is actually ...