A foundational postulate of quantum physics has been directly verified by an experiment for the first time. Formulated by Richard Feynman nearly 80 years ago, it has long formed the backbone of much ...

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A pig kidney transplant worked for a record nine months. This enabled the recipient to stay off dialysis for longer while ...

Critically endangered pygmy raccoons on Cozumel Island in Mexico have shown remarkable creativity by making balls out of ...

Deep Fission has just received safety approval from the US Department of Energy for a reactor design that it plans to install ...

Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see if ...

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of five kilometres, causing it to plummet around a ...

An isolated population of Neanderthals is shedding new light on their species’ final days. Palaeoanthropologist Ludovic ...

From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new sci-fi ...