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Humans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, sketching and finally photographing as the moon ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic. But ...

When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...

In a small study, restricting calories led to greater weight loss among people with a biological age younger than their ...

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Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...