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A final-stage trial has started of an mRNA vaccine against the bird flu strain infecting many animals – and occasionally ...

Some seemingly simple sequences of multiplication and addition grow so quickly that they question the very foundations of ...

Most of Titan’s surface is oddly flat and smooth, and it may be because it is coated by as much as a metre of fluffy organic material that snowed down from the icy moon’s thick atmosphere ...

Most hospital patients don't brush their teeth regularly, but doing so could cut their risk of developing pneumonia during ...