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The Deep Space Network is our best way to communicate with spacecraft beyond Earth’s orbit, and one of its three stations ...

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For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

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When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic. But ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

It is the year 2036. A patient struggling with depression and anxiety is referred to her local psychobiotics clinic where the ...

Intermittently inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated in ...

A handheld breathalyser picks up on a molecule called acetone, revealing that your body is using fat for energy ...