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Persistent pain, which is common in those over the age of 65, was linked to meaningful declines in physical function and well-being.

Ancient mammals were better adapted than nonavian dinosaurs to survive the Chicxulub asteroid impact.

Squeezed states of the electromagnetic field find many important applications in quantum information science and quantum metrology. Dr. Jie Li et al. at Zhejiang University put forward a new mechanism for preparing micro...

A deepfake detector designed to identify unique facial expressions and hand gestures could spot manipulated videos of world leaders such as Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin

Are uncrewed attack vessels the wave of the future?

They were for fighting other ankylosaurs, rather than fending off predators

They preserve a type of memory-forming synapse found in children

But the trail still leads back to Patagonia

But the trail still leads back to Patagonia

A simple robot has sensors that can detect when they are damaged, stop the robot, self-heal and instruct the robot to start moving again

Radioactive isotopes were found to produce amino acids inside carbonaceous chondrite meteorites.

Our society faces the grand challenge of providing sustainable, secure and affordable means of generating energy, while trying to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to net zero around 2050.

From individual water use to lessons from past civilisations, here's what our Parched Earth series revealed about the impact of the megadrought in south-western North America

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Every night, plankton take a journey to shallower waters to feed, prompting predators to follow in search of a very small, but tasty, snack. These images are taken from a new book, Planktonia, illuminating their daily as...

A century and a half after HMS Challenger embarked on the first global survey of the ocean, some ideas from the era still linger. They urgently need to be left behind, says Helen Scales

With the platform looking a little the worse for wear after its recent acquisition by Elon Musk, Annalee Newitz tries the best alternatives, so you don't have to

From a bone fragment of a mysterious new species to the latest on cave art, Paul Pettit's powerful new book shows how science is rewriting the past

An intense and moving documentary tells the story of tourists caught on the volcanic island of Whakaari when it erupted in 2019

Gas clouds across the universe are known to absorb the light produced by distant massive celestial objects, known as quasars. This light manifests as the so-called Lyman alpha forest, a dense structure composed of absorp...

While tracking an incredibly bright gamma-ray burst to its origins, scientists uncovered a hidden explosion that could upend decades of research.

The time-flipped photon can't be used to restage "Back to the Future," but it could help us figure out some of the universe's most mysterious phenomena.