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NONFICTION The Greatest Polar Expedition of All Time: The Arctic Mission to the Epicenter of Climate Change by Markus Rex, translated...

A nanoparticle coat helps an immunotherapy drug cross the blood-brain barrier in mice so it can target brain tumours more...

Suppose this parallel plate capacitor is connected to a 9-volt battery. A volt is a measure of the electric potential...

Two years and counting into the COVID pandemic, we’ve all seen plenty of misinformation and junk science, whether online, on...

The ancient town of Pompeii was buried under hot volcanic ash in AD 79, but DNA still survives in the...

All remaining U.S. states with COVID-related public mask requirements have recently lifted them, and in mid-April, a district judge in...

The average US car now contains hundreds of kilograms of plastic that end up in landfill when the vehicle has...

Planets can be snatched from one solar system by another in the early lives of stars born in dense clusters...

By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal...

Some say it is indispensable if we are serious about hitting net-zero emissions targets. Others insist it is unnecessary and...

A completely automated system for using a washing machine, from loading to unloading, is already being used for appliance tests...

A set of 16 qubits has been arranged so that they may be able to run any calculation error-free –...

Quantum information has been sent from one side of a simple quantum network to the other, passing through an intermediate...

Russia's war on Ukraine has demonstrated how a major energy exporter can achieve a choke-hold over its customers, leaving them...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The Atlantic hurricane...

An exuberant and authoritative book puts wasps in their rightful place – at the centre of research, says Simon Ings...