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The rise of India’s Ravichandran Ashwin is down to both art and science.
At least say thanks.
Scientists have sequenced the seahorse’s genome and found the genes that could explain male pregnancy.
Scientific breakthroughs in graphene production and nuclear fusion may help us build the super space stations of the future.
Bedtime stories can be comforting, chilling and mysterious, but new research highlights how emotions change depending on how children are doing it.
Plan to develop long-lasting supercapacitors would provide a faster, safer alternative to lithium batteries.
New research uncovers the role of the primate baculum and may explain why humans don’t have one.
Psychologists have developed evidence-based interrogation methods that could be used as alternatives to torture.
Big brother is not watching you … yet.
Ruby and sapphire clouds may be hovering over exoplanet HAT-P-7b.
There might have been as many as 160,000 types of dinosaur, give or take.
Red is the colour of life, of danger and of good luck.
Technology exacerbates the news echo chamber, but it can also be the solution to overcoming our deep-seated psychological biases.
The Earth’s orbit has driven ice ages in the past but those days could be over.
Promises made by researchers to participants to elicit the truth may not be worth the paper their written on if the courts can bulldoze though them.
The Anthropocene most likely started long before the 1950s.
From spinach that can detect explosives to vegetarian meat, biological technology has the potential to change the world.
Research shows the lack of diverse political views on your Facebook feed is more down to self-censorship than any algorithm.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has faced a series of challenges during its first 150 days.
Funding has been agreed for ESA’s ExoMars rover, giving new hope that Europe could find life on Mars.
Ever wondered what it would be like to date in a completely gender-equal world? The answer may surprise you.
Nanotechnology may one day help make cryonics possible.
Mysterious lumps found at the bottom of a 7th-century burial ship have turned out to be bitumen from the Middle East. But how did they get there?
The crash near Medellin killed 75 people, including many members of a top Brazilian football team, but amazingly left six survivors.