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At the dawn of the 20th century, old age wasn’t much of a problem. That’s because a newborn in 1900 could expect to live, on ...

By lifting a gene from wild rice and breeding it into domestic crops, researchers have created a perennial crop that can live for two years or more. That could lead to rice that can produce several ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile ...

The new study, published in Nature Communications, looked at six years of data from the Cassini space mission to determine ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our ...

When Clara (alias) first came in, I admired her meticulous appearance and the special care she evidently took to look elegant and impressive at the age of almost 80 years. Widowed, she moved to a ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our ...

My first encounter with the importance of oil was in 1962. I had just watched an episode of the witty sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies that began with a catchy theme song: “Come and listen to my story ...

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor (opens a new tab) took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook ...

Animal life is extraordinarily diverse and complex, having colonised almost all environments on Earth – from hostile hydrothermal vents in the deep sea to the skies across our ...

Aubril. As a reward, he returned to cleaning an intriguing Cambrian arthropod fossil he had recently received for review. At ...