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When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...

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We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

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

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a ...