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Snub-nosed monkey mums are picky when choosing a babysitter, permitting experienced females to care for their infants more often than young and inexperienced ones. Many primates rely on the help of ...

Physicists have long suspected that there is a layer of physical reality beneath quantum theory and a new mathematical model ...

People with cognitive decline or early-stage dementia saw their symptoms improve when given bespoke treatment plans that ...

A clinical trial to reverse age-related vision conditions using stem cell treatment could finally deliver on the promise of a ...

Exercise has been touted as a tool for managing and treating long covid, but much of the evidence has neglected one of its ...

Measuring the strength of gravity is extraordinarily difficult, and different experiments have always disagreed – but a new ...

The day when a quantum computer manages to break common encryption, or Q-Day, is fast approaching, and the world is not close ...

A powerful AI kept from public access because of its ability to hack computers with impunity is making headlines around the ...

During the Cretaceous, 19-metre-long predatory octopuses swam the seas, and evidence from their fossilised remains suggest ...

The food industry has made big promises to reduce emissions and become more sustainable, but a review concludes that many of ...

The rise of a new generation of radiotherapies means we will soon need much greater quantities of radioactive atoms. That's ...