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Quantum effects are no longer confined to ultra-cold chips and vacuum chambers. For the first time, researchers have ...

Oxygen is essential for life as we know it. From powering our cells through respiration to shaping Earth’s atmosphere and ...

It’s in your favorite sugar-free snacks, backed by health claims, and approved by regulators. But scientists just uncovered ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modis message against the misuse of antibiotics is timely and draws attention to antimicrobial ...

The hidden trigger behind greying hair may have finally come to light. And it could hold the key to slowing ageing ...

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

It’s hard to keep up with all the discoveries made around the world every year in science, but harder still to sort the hype ...

New research shows potatoes evolved from tomatoes through ancient plant mixing that created underground tubers.

It has been claimed that because most of our DNA is active, it must be important, but now human-plant hybrid cells have been ...