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A new study, published July 6, 2026, in the journal Nature Communications, suggests that two of the best-known trends in ...

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The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial cosmological model instead treats it as a ...

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The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of ...

The major project has proven extremely unpopular with local residents ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

The Big Bang may not mark the absolute beginning of everything. A controversial cosmological model instead treats it as a boundary, with our universe on one side and a time-reversed anti-universe on ...

Cat kneading, or making biscuits, starts as a nursing reflex in kittens — a biologist explains why it lingers for life, and ...

Protesters gathered at a Walsall woodland which is set to be destroyed to make way for a 1,000-place secondary school.  The ...