From August 2026, you'll be able to sprinkle a little science into your tabletop competition with the worldwide delivery of ...

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A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive ...

A small group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukaemia have seen their cancer driven into remission ...

In recent years, an increasing number of scientific investigations have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer's disease ...

The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re ...

Deep in the mountains of southern Brazil, a bright orange frog, just over a centimeter long, hops into the spotlight.

The taming of fire is credited with sparking humanity's evolutionary journey towards our modern levels of intelligence.

An extreme close-up of the Australian rufous net-casting spider's unique silk, captured by biologist Martín Ramírez and his ...

To test this idea, the new study looks at an exoplanet known as VHS 1256b. It has a mass of around 20 Jupiters and is one of ...

A faint, tiny flash of red light glimpsed at the Cosmic Dawn more than 13 billion years ago has smashed the record for the ...

Cats meow more at owners who are men than women, new research has found, possibly because men tend to be more aloof when it ...