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The two astronauts testing out Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft were supposed to begin making their way back to Earth on Wednesday night but...
Scientists are trying to create a new type of bread that is just as healthy as wholemeal but looks and tastes like its white counterpart. Aimed at...
Researchers have discovered the cause of the brightest burst of light ever recorded. But in doing so they have run up against two bigger mysteries,...
Scientists fear climate change could "call time" on the great British pint and are helping the brewing industry to save it. Hops give bitter its...
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what lies at the heart of a celebrated cosmic explosion. In February 1987, a star was seen exploding...
Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical research because its physiology is similar to...
Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire have discovered a gigantic, ring-shaped structure in space. It is 1.3bn light-years in diameter...
Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by UK astronomers reveals. Images from a space mission in...
How did a young man born 2,000 years ago near what is now southern Russia, end up in the English countryside? DNA sleuths have retraced his steps...