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A large chunk of burning detritus discovered in the Pilbara desert of Western Australia appears to be space junk that ...

The idea was that as an alien civilization advances, its technology becomes too sophisticated for us to detect. We could ...

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Super-resolution microscopes have revealed a whole new type of connection between neurons in mouse and human brains.

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Scientists have identified a single gene that gives rise to a rare form of diabetes, unique to newborn babies.

Human sperm can swim through surprisingly viscous fluids with ease – and they seemingly defy Newton's third law of motion to ...

Potentially harmful DNA mutations can amass in men's sperm as they age, new research has found, which may in turn impact the ...

Since the beginning of time, we've had access to the one piece of equipment that is essential for strength training – our own ...

Scientists in the United Kingdom say they have developed a blood test that can diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic ...

In an astonishing feat of gravitational sleuthing, astronomers have found a mysterious, dense blob of invisible matter ...