For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

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Real-time imaging shows that bacterial resilience to antibiotics is not caused by a few ‘persisters’, but is a ...

Studying crowd dynamics could inform strategies that help to prevent dense gatherings from becoming dangerous.

A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the ...

Mathematics skills learnt in real-world situations may not translate to the classroom and vice versa, according to a new study. A team surveyed children in India who work in markets, to see whether ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

That explains the excitement around a chemical plant that will start commercial operations this year in northeast England. In ...

Despite strong interest in using artificial intelligence to make research faster, easier and more accessible, researchers say ...

The executive board of the World Health Organization (WHO) is meeting this week, just days after US President Donald Trump ...

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The small trial will help to establish whether kidneys from genetically modified pigs can be transplanted into people safely and effectively.