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Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet. It may have detected a molecule...
One of the creators of the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of 79. Prof Sir Ian Wilmut's work, at the Roslin...
Tens of thousands of government and privately owned buildings should be safety checked because of crumbling RAAC concrete, experts say. The team that...
Scientists near Chicago say they may be getting closer to discovering the existence of a new force of nature. They have found more evidence that...
A big freeze previously unknown to science drove early humans from Europe for 200,000 years, but they adapted and returned, new research shows. Ocean...
Scientists have picked up shock waves from the orbit of supermassive black holes at the heart of distant galaxies as they begin to merge. This may be...
Now that they have found the debris, there will be an investigation into what happened. According to Rear Admiral John Mauger, the pattern of the...
Scientists in the UK are developing peas that don't taste like peas. No, this isn't a crafty plan to get children to eat their veggies. As more and...
Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the largest explosion ever detected. The explosion is more than 10 times brighter than any...
Scientists have produced an updated map of all human DNA which could help to transform medical research. The original human genome, published 20...
A Japanese company hopes to land an uncrewed probe on the Moon on Tuesday. If it succeeds, the Hakuto-R M1 mission would be the first time a private...
A skeleton of a 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex has been sold to a private individual for 5.55 million Swiss francs ($6.2m; £5m). This is the...
The law has changed to allow gene-edited food to be developed and sold in England. The government hopes the technology will boost jobs and improve...
A Japanese researcher has told a major genetics conference that he has created eggs from the cells of male mice. The research, still in its early...
PM Rishi Sunak should not go back on his pledge to re-join the EU's science research programme, the President of The Royal Society has warned. Prof...
The UK's new cabinet minister for science says that she will have a "relentless focus" on using research to make people's lives better. Michelle...
Scientists have come a step closer to making multi-tasking 'quantum' computers, far more powerful than even today's most advanced supercomputers. ...
More than 2,000 people have been killed and thousands injured by a huge earthquake which struck south-eastern Turkey, near the Syrian border, in the...
Motion capture suits that bring characters to life in films like Avatar are helping researchers track the onset of diseases which impair movement. ...