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A cost-cutting initiative in the world of passenger aviation could see flight-deck staff reduced to just a captain, with ...

Why are some people drawn towards exploration and challenge – even to the point of extreme danger? Alex Hutchinson's bracing ...

Laid down on this operating table are the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed Yana. On 27 March, scientists ...

Our hero Mickey accidentally breaks the rules when he's "reprinted", in a tired take on an old trope, finds film columnist ...

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have ...

For decades, autistic women and girls have had to play "diagnostic bingo" before getting their true diagnosis. As new neuroscience offers a fresh understanding of the condition, the time for change is ...

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the ...

Discover the story of the human brain like never before with Dr Suzana Herculano-Houzel, a pioneering neuroscientist from ...

Under pressure from Elon Musk’s DOGE task force, NASA is cancelling grants and contracts for everything from lunar dust ...

Squeezing exercise into one or two days a week seems to have similar health benefits as doing the same amount of physical ...

As semaglutide-based weight loss treatments such as Ozempic and Wegovy become more popular, new side effects are emerging – ...