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Predatory reptiles move quickly and aggressively towards the sound of babies crying and can tell if they are in genuine distress and so potentially vulnerable

Following a flurry of replication attempts, the claim that LK-99 perfectly conducts electricity at room temperature and pressure is looking unlikely to hold up

A blister-like growth on a girl's shoulder contained an odd, jellylike goop.

Galactic-02, Virgin Galactic's first mission to carry paying civilian customers to space, successfully launched and then landed in New Mexico

The ecosystem, found beneath hydrothermal vents in the East Pacific Rise, is particularly vulnerable to deep-sea mining.

Ancient faeces contains the first evidence that terrestrial vertebrates living during the Late Triassic epoch hosted multiple parasites

The closest living relatives of the bacteria that moved into the cells of a larger organism more than a billion years ago and eventually became mitochondria powering our cells may have been identified living in hot sprin...

The genetic variant APOE4 substantially raises the risk of Alzheimer's disease, but it has also been linked to women having more children in an Indigenous group in Bolivia

A Russian rocket body plunged back to Earth near southern Australia on Monday night (Aug. 7), dazzling and alarming skywatchers.

More and more people are staying single long term. Daniel Schreiber's nuanced book looks into the effects of life lived alone

Following his discovery of the ancient hominin Homo naledi, Lee Berger was determined to enter the cave where the fossils were discovered, but a dreadful journey lay ahead

Health services need to plan around a growing number of people taking lifelong weight-loss injections such as Wegovy - and the sooner they face up to that, the better, says Clare Wilson

In 1956, theoretical physicist David Pines predicted that electrons in a solid can do something strange. While they normally have a mass and an electric charge, Pines asserted that they can combine to form a composite pa...

A particle called Pines's demon has been seen inside a superconductor, decades after it was first predicted

The Curiosity rover has discovered hexagonal patterns in ancient mud on the Red Planet, which hints at cyclical wet and dry periods and boosts chances Mars once hosted life

Your body is ageing down one of four - or more - possible pathways. Figuring out your "ageotype" could help you zero in on the things you can do to stay healthier for longer

The breakthrough marks the second time that the core of a fusion reactor has given out more energy than it has taken in, but significant challenges remain.

"Stomach paralysis" linked to drugs like Ozempic has raised alarm. What do doctors make of the reports?

Nile crocodiles seemed to respond more strongly to intense crying from human and ape infants, compared to calmer, quiet cries.

A "failed star" known as a brown dwarf is orbiting so tightly with a small star that both of them would fit inside our sun, and at least one of them won't survive

Physicists like me don't fully understand what makes up about 83% of the matter of the universe--something we call "dark matter." But with a tank full of xenon buried nearly a mile under South Dakota, we might one day be...

A team of researchers from the Center for Research and Innovation in Metamaterials at the University of Exeter and the Laser Processing Group at the Institute of Optics have presented in the journal Advanced Optical Mate...