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Human footprints found off Canada's Pacific coast may be 13,000 years old, according to a study published March 28, 2018 in the open-access journal...

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have developed a technique which could increase the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for patient diagnosis. The new...

Since the breakthrough discovery of the Majorana particle in 2012 in Delft, the group of professor Leo Kouwenhoven at QuTech and Microsoft have collaborated...

Galaxies and dark matter go hand in hand; you typically don't find one without the other. So when researchers uncovered a galaxy, known as...

A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury—situated 340 light years away—has been detected and characterised by a global team of...

NASA's Project Mercury was the United States' first human-in-space program. Between 1961 and 1963, six astronauts carried out successful one-person spaceflights that offered physicians...

The properties of water have fascinated scientists for centuries, but yet its unique behaviour remains a mystery. Published this week in the journal Proceedings of...

Pioneering early people who lived at the end of the last ice age actually carried on with life as usual despite plummeting temperatures, a...

What if the odds of an event occurring were about one in ten billion? This is the case for the decay of a positively...

This week, an international team of physicists, including researchers at MIT, is reporting the first results from an underground experiment designed to answer one...

Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new...