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Aeroplane detects signature spike in photons that does not fit any known source of antiparticles.

It’s time to ask uncomfortable questions about the brain mechanisms that allow ‘ordinary’ people to turn violent.

Unknown satellites pose danger to New Horizons mission as it journeys to the edge of the Solar System.

Although fjords account for about 0.3% of Earth’s surface area, they sequester 18 million tonnes of carbon per year — 11% of the total absorbed by marine sediment, researchers report […]

Materials scientists have devised a way to grow single layers of a promising class of 2D semiconductor on silicon wafers that are 10 centimetres across — all the while maintaining […]

Lionfish have overwhelmed ecosystems in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean over the past three decades, eating or out-competing native species in what has been called the worst marine […]

In a world first, Chinese scientists have reported editing the genomes of human embryos. The results are published in the online journal Protein & Cell and confirm widespread rumours that such […]

The hunt for life beyond the Solar System is gaining new partners: NASA climatologists. After more than 30 years of studying Earth, a team at the NASA Goddard Institute for […]

Researchers think they have come up with a way to tell fossils of male dinosaurs from those of females — at least for some small feathered species. The key differences […]