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Autopsies reveal plaques in the brains of people who died after receiving grafts from cadavers.

Gravitational signature hints at massive object that orbits the Sun every 20,000 years.

France’s iconic Chauvet cave holds mysterious spray-shaped imagery, made around the time when nearby volcanoes were spewing lava.

The periodic table is a public symbol of chemistry. But as it grows larger, we must stress that science is not just about producing lists, says Philip Ball.

Densely packed stars might allow civilizations to survive for many billions of years.

Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 to be named by scientists from Russia, the United States and Japan.

Almost 100 manuscripts have appeared on the preprint server in the wake of last week’s announcement.

A ‘last resort’ drug to which bacteria are rapidly developing resistance is not quite the end of the antibiotic line.

Geophysicists call it the new core paradox: They can’t quite explain how the ancient Earth could have sustained a magnetic field billions of years ago, as it was cooling from its fiery birth. Now, two scientists have proposed two different ways to solve the paradox. Each relies on minerals crystallizing out of the molten Earth,…