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There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

The rhythm of an infant's brain activity seems to put them in constant learning mode, whereas that of an adult may allow them ...

The shared ancestor of our species, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans may be far older than we thought – which could ...

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Huntington’s disease has been successfully treated for the first time using a gene therapy, which may be available in the US ...

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In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explains how the ...

It has been suggested that lava tubes - underground tunnels carved out by molten rock - might be on Venus, and now we have ...

Scientific evidence is lacking to support the US government’s decisions to caution against using a common painkiller in ...

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