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For a few brief minutes, a suborbital rocket from NASA has an ambitious plan to seek out particles from interstellar space.

China could launch the first module for its own space station this month as the country also prepares to send a large space telescope to join it in orbit within the next few years.

A metal detectorist uncovered more than 100 artifacts dating to the Iron Age at a hillfort in Germany.

Russia is building modules for a new space station, which could potentially replace the International Space Station by the year 2025, officials said.

Researchers recently described a new species of amphibious giant centipede in an archipelago in Japan.

In nature, many molecules possess a property called chirality, which means that they cannot be superimposed on their mirror images (like a left and right hand).

Plenty of people struggle to make sense of a multitude of converging voices in a crowded room. Commonly known as the 'cocktail party effect,' people with hearing loss find it's especially difficult to understand speech i...

A new study finds that overconsumption, overpopulation and uncertainty about the future are among the top concerns of those who say climate change is affecting their reproductive decision-making.

Researchers have developed a new, high-performance artificial muscle technology. The new technology enables more human-like motion due to its flexibility and adaptability, but outperforms human skeletal muscle in several...

Researchers from the Physical Chemistry Department of the Fritz Haber Institute and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg have found out that ultrafast switches in material properti...

A statistical analysis of air pollution data gathered in Chinese cities between 2015 and 2017 has shown that discrepancies between official data and readings taken at US embassies are probably due to data being altered

Recommendation algorithms seem to have the power to influence people, suggest experiments in which people used them to choose partners to date or fictional politicians to vote for

Why special magnetic dog collars are hard to come by, plus the steak company in a beef with Neil deGrasse Tyson and the many lives of Brian Cox, in Feedback's weird weekly round-up

Global warming is already happening as carbon emissions keep on rising, with effects from sea level rise to more and more extreme weather events worldwide

There is a mysterious black market for succulents poached from the California coast. A fascinating documentary follows the people trying to put an end to it

Researchers have developed drugs that bestow many of the health benefits of working out. In the process, they might have figured out how to treat currently untreatable diseases like Alzheimer's

Researchers are developing medicines that replicate the health benefits of exercise. In the process, they're gaining insights into how to treat currently untreatable diseases

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As social robots edge into our lives, The New Breed by Kate Darling is a guide to how to think about them

Many crops have changed over the years through cultivation, but that doesn't mean they have become less nutritious nor is that possible to judge from a picture, writes James Wong

In a world first, researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have captured an image showing the internal orbits, or spatial distribution, of particles in an exciton--a goa...

It's a critical time for action on climate change - but the rapid adaptations seen during the covid-19 pandemic offer hope that we can make a breakthrough, says the diplomat in charge of negotiations