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An incredibly powerful flash of X-rays spotted by the Einstein Probe telescope appears to be a kind of explosion first ...

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Two of the biggest health concerns of the modern age – ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and microplastics – have one thing in common: we don’t actually know if or how they harm our health. But researchers ...

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Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

A fossil bed in China containing animals up to 554 million years old suggests that we may have to reconsider the idea that ...

Improved hardware can send ten times as much data through existing fibre-optic cables, potentially providing a way to ...

A galaxy spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope, known as Hebe, that existed just 400 million years after the big bang ...

Genetically engineering tobacco plants could enable a more sustainable production method for psychedelic drugs, which are ...

Recognising rhythmic patterns was thought to require a big brain, but a series of experiments has shown that buff-tailed ...