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Rocks in some parts of the UK have the potential to produce natural hydrogen, but it remains unclear whether the gas is ...

A newly identified brain circuit in mice may explain why we sleep longer and deeper after being sleep deprived – and lead to ...

Treating types of cancer with CAR T-cell therapy is expensive and inconvenient, but a streamlined approach that creates the ...

Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help ...

A skull from China has been identified as Denisovan using molecular evidence – so ancient humans once known solely from their ...

One of the world’s leading nuclear technology and security companies wants to highlight the equal opportunities and flexible ...

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Tech CEOs and politicians alike are preparing for the day that superintelligent AI takes over, whilst failing to deal with ...

Assigning certain sizes, shapes and positions of bubbles to characters within Morse and binary codes means messages could be ...