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

Done right, with real-world evidence to back up the claims and persuade doctors to adopt it, artificial intelligence has the ...

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

A common sleep medication prevents mice from effectively clearing away waste and toxins from their brain during sleep ...

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

In the centenary of naturalist Gerald Durrell’s birth, a new memoir adds rich new layers to what we know about the man ...

We need to stop ignoring young people's firsthand experience with artificial intelligence. They are already at the sharp end ...

Social media companies have long struggled with moderating the behaviour of billions of users, and now it seems they are ...

Every fundamental particle in the universe fits into one of two groups called fermions and bosons, but now it seems there could be other particles out there that break this simple classification and w ...