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A network of Earth's best clocks will be synchronised with the most accurate one ever sent into space. But the device has a ...

On a faraway planet, the James Webb Space Telescope has picked up signs of molecules that, on Earth, are produced only by ...

Microbial communities feeding on geothermal methane seeps beneath the Antarctic ice sheet could resemble life-supporting environments on frozen worlds in our solar system and beyond ...

When Roman Egypt came under attack from the Kushites in what is now Sudan, the Roman forces responded by destroying a Kushite ...

As quantum computers mature, they will be transformational. But there are good reasons why we don’t yet know exactly which ...

New global rules will see a carbon levy applied to emissions from shipping for the first time, but analysts say the package ...

General relativity is an astonishingly beautiful theory, and grappling with why it disagrees with quantum mechanics is a joy, ...

Two independent research teams have developed methods for hacking noisy quantum computers based on a row-hammer attack, a ...

The report of possible biosignatures on the exoplanet K2-18b is exciting, but we are a long way from establishing beyond ...

The idea of varying your lifestyle throughout your menstrual cycle to help relieve PMS or period pain seems intuitive, but ...

Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable ...