NASA’s Swift space telescope is reaching the end of its two-decade run in orbit – unless a satellite launched on 3 July can ...

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An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones ...

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Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to ensure their offspring ...

A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really ...

Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has ...

A proposed technique to counter global warming by spraying sun-reflecting particles near the poles would cause commercial ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...

The question of how gravity interacts with the quantum world has long perplexed physicists, but a non-quantum theory of space ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

A form of fibre that boosts the release of the hunger-reducing hormone GLP-1 has been approved as safe by a European ...