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Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t ...

As you get older, your body’s response to food changes significantly. But by making the right changes to what you eat from ...

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...

The Deep Space Network is our best way to communicate with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and one of its three stations ...

When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic. But ...

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