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DNA and protein analysis has identified a white substance smeared on mummies in China as a kind of kefir cheese, made from ...

Bacteria that have been genetically engineered to work like computers can solve a range of problems, using a very simple type ...

Interacting with animals seems to provide emotional support to young people with a serious illness, even when the contact is ...

For an undercover operative, Sadie Smith takes unnecessary risks as she infiltrates an eco-activist group. Why? And where do ...

Using more training data and computational power is meant to make AIs more reliable, but tests suggest large language models ...

Our immune cells change a lot as the decades progress, which could explain why we become more susceptible to certain ...

New research is revealing that common sense is a lot more idiosyncratic than we thought, with important implications for ...

Astronomer Jo Dunkley is planning to use the Simons Observatory to snare evidence for inflation, the theory that the universe ...

As a six-year investigation into the Thwaites glacier in Antarctica wraps up, the scientists involved are pessimistic for the ...

Genetic testing on samples collected during the earliest days of the covid-19 outbreak suggests it is likely that the virus ...