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A black hole bomb - an idea first proposed in 1969 - has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

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In 2004, a remarkable life-saving public-private health project began on Equatorial Guinea’s Bioko Island, off the coast of ...

A global biopharma is fighting malaria in endemic countries through partnerships that harness R&D, broaden access to ...

An Austrian site occupied by humans from around 24,000 to 20,000 years ago documents a switch towards hunting reindeer for ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convinced even the most ...

Machine learning helped show how harnessing the weird effects of Einstein’s special relativity could enable a new kind of quantum computer – and it could also lead to new insights into the quantum rea ...

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...

Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic ...