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Colliding galaxies can create a beam of focused microwave radiation known as a maser, and astronomers have discovered the ...

New insights into the causes of migraine is prompting a fresh look at a drug target that was sidelined 25 years ago ...

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...

Planet K2-18b, an apparent water world 124 light years away, has been seen as a promising location in the search for aliens, ...

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons ...

Antibodies harvested from the blood of paediatricians are up to 25 times better at protecting against the common respiratory ...

Babies in the West commonly lack a gut microbe that is found in infants in other parts of the world, which may be due to ...

The evolution of human hands is one of the most important – and overlooked – stories of our origin. Now, new fossil evidence ...

A technology that uses a coiled wire to electrify aerosols has boosted snowfall amid a drought in the western US, according ...

Hearing a sound while working on a complex puzzle, and then hearing it again during sleep, helped lucid dreamers better ...