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Memories in mice persisted even after they lost the connections that we thought were needed for recall, expanding our ...

Scientists once believed they could pinpoint the moment when humans first appeared. But as new fossils have filled in our evolutionary history, that defining moment has begun to disappear – replaced b ...

Descent passed from mother to daughter rather than from father to son, a study of more than 500 Iron Age individuals from ...

Quantum entanglement is key to solving a 250-year-old mathematical puzzle – and the discovery could ultimately help build quantum computers that are more resilient to errors. In the 1700s, according ...

Photographers in Spain captured spectacular images of the rare alignment of the moon and the sun, as it cast a dark shadow over much of the country ...

The fate of a critical ocean current may depend more on how fast our planet heats up than the temperature level we ultimately end up with. Earth could warm by more than 5°C above pre-industrial levels ...

Are you getting enough rest? In this episode of Change Your Mind, health journalists Helen Thomson and Cat de Lange dive into the psychology and neuroscience of rest to find out how we can make the ...

Creatures that bridged the gap between reptiles and mammals may have been bearing live young 90 million years earlier than we thought. One of the hallmarks of all mammals apart from monotremes – ...

Facilitating the journey of these materials from the first cut into the earth to lights out on race day is a fleet of Komatsu ...

This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles ...

For the UK, the most obvious answer is around the late 1400s. Assuming a generation every 25 years, it’s a simple ...