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

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Puzzlingly, many birds add human-made material to their nests with no obvious function – now there is evidence that these ...

The slowdown of a major current in the Atlantic Ocean is boosting the sea level and associated flooding in the Northeast US, on top of the already-rising sea level due to climate change.

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

After two decades of debate, research confirms that an odd binary star system has an equally odd planetary companion ...

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