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A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been ...

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Thousands of fossils from the La Brea tar pits in California show no signs of mammals and birds evolving in response to ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, showing our star as we’ve never seen it before ...

There’s fascinating tech at London’s garden shows – from a mini greenhouse that transported live plants to Victorian England to the arboreal equivalent of smartwatches ...

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains – which could be a ...

Life is thought to have begun when RNA began replicating itself, and researchers have got close to achieving this in the lab ...

Whether or not we have partial free will could soon be resolved by experiments in quantum physics, with potential ...