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By modifying 20 regions of the genome, scientists successfully bred mice with two male parents and raised them to maturity.

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in two Kansas counties has sickened dozens since January 2024.

The US Congress is expected to vote on whether to confirm Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the nation's public health institutions in the coming days - he would be taking over during a time of turmoil

A research team from Japan has developed a unified model to scale the transitional pressure development in a one-dimensional flow. This achievement provides a better understanding of how pressure fields build up in the c...

A new study challenges the belief that larger groups reduce cooperation, showing instead that flexible social connections enhance teamwork. Researchers found that in a prisoner's dilemma game, participants in bigger grou...

A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany.

Quantum computers have the potential of outperforming classical computers on some optimization and computational tasks. Compared to classical systems, however, quantum systems are more prone to errors, as they are more s...

Many materials store information about what has happened to them in a sort of material memory, like wrinkles on a once crumpled piece of paper. Now, a team led by Penn State physicists has uncovered how, under specific c...

An article published in the journal Optica describes the development of a new experimental device that explores the boundary between classical and quantum physics, allowing the simultaneous observation and investigation ...

Ocean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address climate change, scientists find.

A search for particles' most paradoxical quantum states led researchers to construct a 37-dimensional experiment

An algorithm inspired by quantum computers but used on classical machines can make weather forecasts and other turbulence simulations a thousand times easier to run

Researchers at the University of Oxford have pioneered a new approach to simulate turbulent systems, based on probabilities. The findings appear in the journal Science Advances.

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen by mimicking a chemical reaction in plants. The technology could be utilized in...

A numerical error in a scientific paper created alarm around the chemicals in black plastic utensils, but the extent to which they cause harm is up for debate

The success of Chinese firm DeepSeek suggests tech companies can train and run powerful AIs without consuming vast amounts of power

Various projects aim to reestablish lynx as a wild species in the UK after being absent for centuries, but those involved face formidable hurdles, finds Graham Lawton

Feedback is intrigued (and terrified) by a new paper that suggests you could set off a ridiculously gigantic nuclear bomb deep under the seabed to mop up carbon dioxide

US President Donald Trump has pledged to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in government agencies in order to build a "merit-based" society. But psychological research shows that such initiatives can c...

Some animals - and even machines - may turn out to be conscious. Must we wait for scientific certainty before sharing our rights, asks The Moral Circle

Scientists' ideas for travelling to the stars range from the the wholly improbable to the hugely expensive and very difficult, says Ed Regis

The neck is less than 1 per cent of the human body's surface area, but it plays an oversized role in our lives, reveals Kent Dunlap's engaging natural and cultural history