US President Trump has proposed a Golden Dome defence system that includes missile interceptors in space. But the idea would ...

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A quantum computer with a million qubits would be able to crack the vital RSA encryption algorithm, and while such machines ...

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Women seem to be judged as being more moral than men, which could mean they have further to fall if they don't meet societal ...

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An analysis of the sloth family tree suggests three different groups of the animals evolved to gigantic sizes in response to ...

Despite a huge media fanfare in which Colossal Biosciences claimed to have resurrected the extinct dire wolf, the company's ...

A huge tsunami hit a cliff in Tonga 7000 years ago and carried a 1200-tonne boulder 200 metres inland, making it the biggest ...

Nanoparticle-infused contact lenses can transform infrared radiation into different colours of visible light, potentially ...

Huge colonies of penguins in Antarctica fill the air with ammonia, which stabilises particles in the atmosphere that allow ...

Airborne electric fields similar to those from nearby power lines seem to have a dramatic effect on honeybee foraging, ...