Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our ...

Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from ...

Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, as it cast a dark shadow over much of the country ...

Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

The fate of a critical ocean current may depend more on how fast our planet heats up than the temperature level we ultimately end up with. Earth could warm by more than 5°C above pre-industrial levels ...

Scientists once believed they could pinpoint the moment when humans first appeared. But as new fossils have filled in our evolutionary history, that defining moment has begun to disappear – replaced b ...

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