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It has been 32 days since Maurice Miller, a dead man who is being kept on life support, received a genetically modified pig kidney, and it is still functioning with no signs of rejection or infection

A 20-story rock face in Alaska known as "The Coliseum" is covered with layers of footprints belonging to a range of dinosaurs, including a tyrannosaur.

A man unwittingly picked up a parasite, and years later, it triggered a throat infection.

Scientists have found a mathematical shortcut that could help harness fusion energy, a potential source of clean electricity that could mitigate floods, heat waves, and other rising effects of climate change. The method ...

The Bessel beam, with a significant depth of field and self-healing characteristics, has been applied in widespread applications, including quantum entanglement, underwater 3D imaging, optical micro-manipulation, microsc...

The peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower fell on Aug. 13, and photographers around the world were ready for it.

A new type of star may eventually collapse and become a magnetar - a highly magnetic neutron star, whose origins have been a cosmic mystery for decades

A series of catastrophic fires killed off many large mammals in southern California by 13,000 years ago, and they were largely due to the arrival of humans

A century-old mystery of how galaxies change shapes has been solved by considering 'survival of the fittest' collisions between cosmic titans.

Strange metals have baffled scientists since their discovery. Now, theorists have finally come up with an explanation.

Over the past few years, the white clouds that usually shroud Neptune's surface have disappeared, and it may be because of changes in the sun's activity over its 11-year cycle

When two black holes merge to form a single one, it can zoom off at an extraordinary pace - but scientists have found that it does have a speed limit

After a standard dental procedure, a man turned up to the emergency department with bleeding in his brain.

Fruit flies with access to a spinning carousel seem to ride on it for fun in a rare case of play-like behaviour in an invertebrate

In the intricate realm of wave turbulence, where predictability falters and chaos reigns, new research explores the heart of wave turbulence using an ultracold quantum gas. The study reveals new insights that could advan...

A patchwork of polygon-shaped cracks in ancient Martian mud are evidence of past wet-dry cycles, which could have helped extraterrestrial life emerge on the Red Planet.

Trinity's quantum physicists in collaboration with IBM Dublin have successfully simulated super diffusion in a system of interacting quantum particles on a quantum computer.

Researchers from the Department of Physics at Universität Hamburg, observed a quantum state that was theoretically predicted more than 50 years ago by Japanese theoreticians but so far eluded detection. By tailoring an ...

A 16th-century sugar estate on the tiny African island of São Tomé is the earliest known example of plantation slavery.

A mysterious magnetic effect that causes the path that electrons take through a material to bend--called the anomalous Hall effect--has been elucidated in a new mathematical analysis by two RIKEN physicists. Their work h...

Everyone knows that arithmetic is true: 2 + 2 = 4. But surprisingly, we don't know why it's true. By stepping outside the box of our usual way of thinking about numbers, my colleagues and I have recently shown that arith...

The accuracy of pedestrian-detecting AI systems may be biased against some groups of people, fuelling calls for more transparency and tighter regulations