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Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're coming.

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At first glance, the insect trapped in golden resin looked like any other tiny victim of deep time. Only under close ...

I thought I’d post this annual feature a bit early so that you’re not overly slammed in the coming days when I put my other ...

Paul Cheung was recently named president of the Committee of 100, a non-profit organisation of influential Chinese-Americans ...

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The afternoon of 7 August 1996 isn’t a time that sticks in many people’s minds. But if things had worked out differently, it might have been etched into our collective memory. At 1.15pm, US President ...

In the mice with large-brain primate microbes, the researchers found increased expression of genes associated with energy ...

Hidden within Cassiopeia A, the youngest known exploded star in our galaxy, astronomers have found surprisingly high levels of chlorine and potassium. These elements carry an odd number of protons in ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...