Jeff Bezos’s space company is about to launch New Glenn, a reusable rocket intended to rival SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, for the ...

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An uptick of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) cases in China has raised concerns over another pandemic, which appear to be ...

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The tale of Fermat's last theorem took hundreds of years and included tantalising twists, disappointing errors and a ...

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We have long suspected that music has restorative qualities, but Daniel Levitin is now providing rigorous evidence that it ...

Whether AI can assist in cancer detection has been subject to much debate, but now a real-world test with almost 200 ...

A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has passed away from the ...

Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations in drinking water ...

From Cory Doctorow to Nnedi Okorafor and from fancy space opera to elegantly written visions of a flooded future world, there ...

Simulations suggest Pluto and its largest moon may have gently stuck together for a few hours before Charon settled into a ...