A rock that formed around 4.5 billion years ago on Mars before being blasted into space by a meteor strike and making its way ...

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Earthen channels that span more than 640 kilometres show that pre-Mayan Mesoamericans built large-scale fish-trapping ...

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Endangered Ethiopian wolves feed on the nectar of red hot poker plants, and may transport pollen from flower to flower as ...

Chloramine is used as a disinfectant in drinking water systems from the US to Australia. Research now shows it breaks down ...

The vast computational power of the El Capitan supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will be ...

Changes to the structure of DNA within fat cells may be why it is often so hard to keep weight off after you have lost it ...

Groups of wild chimpanzees with more complex tool-using behaviours tend to be genetically linked, providing evidence for ...

Quantum computers could get a boost from artificial intelligence, thanks to a model created by Google DeepMind that cleans up ...

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could ...