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The chemistry Nobel Prize goes to Frances Arnold, George Smith, and Gregory Winter for controlling evolution to create proteins that solve chemical problems. | Continue reading
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A spacecraft currently mapping the Milky Way could be pelted by space dust next week, so the European Space Agency is putting up its shields | Continue reading
Moving a body part in time to a rhythm alters your perception of time, causing it to either stretch or contract – providing new clues about which parts of the brain control our body clocks | Continue reading
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There is a 300-kilometre-wide ice world in the far reaches of the Solar System - and its orbit is consistent with the presence of the hypothetical Planet X | Continue reading
There is a 300-kilometre-wide ice world in the far reaches of the Solar System - and its orbit is consistent with the presence of the hypothetical Planet X | Continue reading
At last, a third Nobel, but it has been a decidedly mixed week for female physicists | Continue reading
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A talk by a physicist at CERN suggesting that women aren’t as good as men at physics has sparked outrage. I was there, and people are right to be offended, says Jess Wade | Continue reading
We can now decode dreams and recreate images of faces people have seen, and everyone from Facebook to Elon Musk wants a piece of this mind reading reality | Continue reading
Mathematician Michael Atiyah has presented his claimed proof of one of the most famous unsolved problems in maths, but others remain cautiously sceptical | Continue reading
Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers | Continue reading
Your scalp can "smell" things - and when it detects synthetic sandalwood, the rate of hair growth increases | Continue reading
Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers | Continue reading
Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers | Continue reading
Michael Atiyah, a famed UK mathematician, claims that he has a "simple proof" of the Riemann hypothesis, a key unsolved question about the nature of prime numbers | Continue reading
Aquatic mosquito larvae eat plastic in the water and retain it when they become flies – meaning the plastic ends up in the birds that eat mosquitoes | Continue reading
Two modified versions of DNA add different “letters” to life’s genetic code but still work just as well as the original | Continue reading
Sci-fi loves to depict military AIs as malign killer minds or robots. But the truth is more subtle and more terrifying – and it's happening right now | Continue reading
We are starting to replace harmful BPA in plastic bottles and food containers, but alternative chemicals might be just as bad | Continue reading
The Pacific Ocean is likely to enter a La Niña state in the next few months, which could mean a more active Atlantic hurricane season next year | Continue reading
Mirror test suggests big-brained manta rays have what it takes to be self-aware, but not everyone is convinced by results or even the test itself | Continue reading
Adults in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere perform better in cognitive tests in early autumn, and dementia symptoms peak in winter and spring | Continue reading
Regular inkjet printers only work with watery liquids, but one that uses sound waves can print with almost anything as ink, from honey to metals to human cells | Continue reading
How you type could reveal early signs of Parkinson’s disease, including subtle tremors, before serious changes in the brain have occurred | Continue reading
When wood is stripped down to its grain and infused with gel, it becomes a strong yet flexible material that could be used in muscle implants and prosthetics | Continue reading
People who often find their mind wandering have a larger volume of grey matter in a part of the brain called the left superior parietal lobe | Continue reading
Gravitational waves that are flat instead of curved could form black holes when a pair of them crash together and tangle up space-time. Don't worry though, they probably won't | Continue reading
DeepMind's system trains on eye scan data taken from thousands of NHS patients and determines which should be seen sooner | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is supposed to make life easier for us all – but it is also prone to amplify sexist and racist biases from the real world | Continue reading
A faraway star surrounded by a strange cloud of dust and gas had an explosive rebirth, spitting out debris and dimming by a factor of 10,000 in less than 50 years | Continue reading
A combination of AI and photography is helping wine makers keep their grapes free of disease, by spotting the grapes that are most resistant to rot | Continue reading
Satellite images taken on 20 July suggest North Korea may be dismantling two important features of its intercontinental ballistic missiles programme | Continue reading
Deadly heatwaves could continue for weeks, and possibly months, across much of the northern hemisphere, meteorologists predicted this week | Continue reading
A study of students found that those who have a brain parasite linked to outbursts of explosive rage are more likely to be majoring in business studies | Continue reading
For the first time, researchers have got evidence that dreams help soothe the impact of emotional events in our lives, acting like overnight therapy | Continue reading
The 100-million-year-old lizards in Burmese amber are some of the best preserved examples known, and are revealing secrets of their evolution | Continue reading
Britain is experiencing a prolonged “wind drought” that has slowed or halted the blades on turbines around the country | Continue reading
A drone learned to navigate unexpected obstacles for itself by being manually carried around a racetrack. It could be used for future delivery drones | Continue reading
A study has found that CRISPR can delete large chunks of DNA, suggesting it could cause cancer if used to treat diseases by editing many cells in the body | Continue reading
Our best theory of physical reality is exquisite – but inexplicable. A low, unexplained experimental noise could herald a revolution in the making | Continue reading