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Scientists have the tools to end the epidemic. They just need better ways to use them.

Working out how to build ethical robots is one of the thorniest challenges in artificial intelligence. Real-life roboticists are citing Asimov’s laws a lot these days: their creations are becoming […]

Sequencing data point to longstanding conflict between the chromosomes that determine sex.

Attempts to attribute extreme weather events to global warming have often failed because they have looked at the wrong thing, leading climatologists claim. By focusing on rising temperatures, tides and […]

Bright galaxy thought to hold stars from generation that seeded rest of Universe.

A wave of innovative flat materials is following in the wake of graphene — but the most exciting applications could come from stacking them into 3D devices.

Dinosaurs once dominated the world — but they spent their first 30 million years stranded on its geographic fringes. Large dinosaurs flourished near the poles, but only a few small […]

The best molecular-structure data — such as those that revealed the architecture of DNA — are often obtained by analysing how molecules diffract X-rays. But to obtain them, the molecules […]

Suspended ions mimic strange ‘superlubricity’ phenomenon.