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In the bottle processing plant in Reidsville, North Carolina, drifts of plastic particles, like snow banks, are piled in every…

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses which should scare you more: sharks or ticks and fungus — and why sharks…

First Near-Complete Denisovan Skull Reveals What This Ancient Human Cousin Looked LikeA Denisovan skull has been identified for the first…

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass…

Human DNA in its natural state inside cells (left) compared with its state eight hours after being infected with the…

An international team of scientists has published a new report that moves towards a better understanding of the behaviour of…

Industrial waste can turn into rock in as little as 35 years, new research reveals, instead of the thousands or…

Half of the universe’s ordinary matter was missing — until now.Astronomers have used mysterious but powerful explosions of energy called…

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