How a Finnish physicist named Karl Lemström once became obsessed with recreating the aurora borealis from scratch – and may ...

A hybrid grolar bear saga is unfolding in the Arctic, and the tale of this strange family has much to tell us about nature on ...

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Helena Saremba is a freelance science writer from Germany. She reports on health, climate and the life sciences, with a ...

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The idea that we might be living in a simulated reality has worried us for centuries. Now physicists have found some ...

Some of the elements used by living systems are far more abundant in Cassiopeia A than we thought, hinting that some parts of our galaxy might be more suitable for life than others ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

Astronomers have discovered that 3I/ATLAS is carrying methanol and other chemicals that were probably important in the origin ...

The covid-19 pandemic opened the door to once-controversial human challenge trials. Now, volunteers are willingly catching ...

Nearly three decades since the remarkable cloning of Dolly the sheep, it has all gone quiet on the human cloning front.