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A female sperm whale has been filmed giving birth for the first time, supported by 10 adult females who lifted the calf out ...

Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis ...

CERN is working on building an antimatter delivery service. The project passed a big test by successfully transporting 92 ...

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Fifty years ago, Richard Dawkins shared an irresistible scientific metaphor with the world that modernised and democratised ...

Astronomers have found a 710-metre-wide asteroid that spins once every 1.9 minutes, so fast that it should have spun itself ...

The remains of dogs from more than 14,000 years ago have been found in Turkey and the UK, revealing that domesticated animals ...

The American Physical Society Global Physics Summit is the world’s largest meeting of physicists ...

A 20-year study has shown that, like photocopying photocopies, cloning doesn't produce perfect copies – with big implications ...

As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to ...