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Hera asteroid mission takes stunning images of Mars’s m...

A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a ...

We need a global environmental court – and we need it now

Our current justice system won't save small island nations like mine. We need a ...

Content moderation offers little actual safety on Big S...

Whether social media sites police their platforms using humans or algorithms, co...

Quartz crystals on Mars could preserve signs of ancient...

NASA’s Perseverance rover found large crystals of quartz with a high purity on M...

Are we really doomed? An entertaining guide to humanity...

Few people could write so genially, even humorously, about our existential crisi...

Saturn gains 128 moons, giving it more than the other p...

Saturn has dozens of new moons, bringing it to a total of 274. All of the new mo...

Doubts cast over D-Wave's claim of quantum computer sup...

D-Wave's claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hun...

Signs of Terry Pratchett’s dementia may have been hidde...

Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with posterior cortical atrophy, a type of dementi...

Metals can be squeezed into sheets just a few atoms thick

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atom...

The first operating system for quantum networks has bee...

As a step towards a useful and ultra-secure quantum internet, researchers have c...

A fresh understanding of tiredness reveals how to get y...

Radical new insights from the science of interoception – how the body senses its...

Ancient face bones offer clues to identity of early hum...

Bone fragments from a cave in northern Spain suggest there were multiple hominin...

Do we finally understand what caused record heat in 202...

Scientists have struggled to explain why global temperatures have shot up in rec...

The 13 drugs and supplements that could slow brain ageing

Hydrocortisone and testosterone are just two of 13 drugs and supplements that co...

Understanding conscious experience isn’t beyond the rea...

For a long time objective measurement of subjective experience was considered im...

Rediscover The OA, a tv show with echoes of late direct...

The death of David Lynch, who shaped decades of film and TV, is bound to hurt. R...

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