SARS-CoV-2 virus, which emerged in Wuhan, China, in late 2019. The ensuing pandemic has killed millions worldwide. Vaccines have made the condition much less fatal for those who have been vaccinated, ...

At the end of October 2024, a grey gloom descended over the British Isles. Nothing unusual there. But this murky shroud was particularly persistent, even for the UK. Some regions barely saw the ...

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When it comes to sending humans back to the moon, knowing how to work with the regolith that coats the ground will be make-or ...

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Blue Origin’s reusable New Glenn rocket has successfully launched and reached orbit, though engineers failed to safely land the first-stage rocket booster back on Earth as hoped. Even so, the ...

South American megafauna, from giant sloths to camel-like creatures, survived thousands of years longer than we thought, ...

Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they ...

A man with paralysis was able to fly a virtual drone through a complex obstacle course simply by thinking about moving his ...

Research is revealing the complex relationship between sleep and the gut microbiome, raising the prospect that eating better ...

The shock discovery that metallic nodules could be producing oxygen in the deep sea made headlines last year – now the team ...

The megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5 million years ago was so huge and fast that it shaped the landscape of ...