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I am at the American Physical Society Global Physics Summit, the world’s largest annual meeting of physicists, with 14,000 ...

CERN is working on building an antimatter-delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 100 ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...

We've always thought that Tyrannosaurus rex was an unchallenged apex predator during the dying days of the dinosaurs. But a fresh look at controversial fossils has prompted palaeontology’s biggest-eve ...

Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving ...

The Neanderthal population shrank during a cold spell around 75,000 years ago, and the loss of genetic diversity may have ...

On Tuesday, CERN will transport antiprotons on a truck for the first time, testing the plan to deliver antimatter by road to ...

Since 2016, Antarctic sea ice extent has been declining sharply – now scientists are piecing together how strong winds and ...

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then ...

Qilimanjaro is selling a relatively cheap kit with everything you need for a quantum computer – you just need to be able to ...