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Cooling metal bars to near absolute zero, suspending microscopic gold beads, or searching for signs that gravity might be ...

A gene therapy that patients breathe in has been found to shrink lung tumours by inserting immune-boosting genes into ...

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...

South Australia is proving to the world that relying largely on wind and solar energy with battery back-up is incredibly ...

Many researchers thought that earthquakes in the Himalayas recur at regular intervals – but an analysis of sediment cores has shown they are largely random, and the region has seen far more than we pr ...

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