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Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more ...

An attempt to become the third successful private landing on the moon has ended in failure, as ispace's Resilience probe ...

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Dark stars were first suggested in 2007, but now observations with the James Webb Space Telescope hint that we may have ...

Thousands of tiny nematode worms can join up to form tentacle-like towers that can straddle large gaps or hitch rides on ...

Taurine supplements have previously been found to extend the lifespan of monkeys and mice, but a new study in humans shows ...

New mathematical work provides a way to identify when information has been changed by manipulating space-time – and it may ...

When Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that the US would stop recommending covid-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnancies ...

Sea star larvae have been stored at −200°C and thawed for the first time, a step towards restoring populations that have been ...

Two brain regions seem to work together to determine whether we are seeing something real, or merely a product of our ...