WHEN Jess Wade isn’t working in the physics laboratories of Imperial College London, she is fighting to make science more accessible for all. Her flagship project is to create and edit articles on ...

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Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

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Artificial intelligence built by OpenAI has cracked a decades-old conjecture by Paul Erdős, which mathematicians have hailed ...

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Antarctica’s most threatened glacier is about be further destabilised, as the floating ice shelf in front of Thwaites glacier ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and ...

When Richard Dawkins’s first blockbuster book was published half a century ago, few genes had ever been sequenced or studied ...