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Daring flights in an old spy plane observe powerful type of radiation that could help explain the cause of lightning.

As development of the technology accelerates, countries are weighing the costs and benefits of how they regulate it.

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Fieldwork can be deadly: heads of expeditions must be taught how to cope in a crisis.

Therapeutic T cells used to treat acute myeloid leukaemia secrete proteins that impair the cells’ own ability to attack ...

Seung and Murthy say that they’ve been developing the FlyWire map for more than four years, using electron microscopy images of slices of the fly’s brain. The researchers and their colleagues stitched ...

Physicists have identified new forms of γ-ray radiation created inside thunderclouds, and shown that levels of γ-ray production are much higher on Earth than previously thought.

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The chatbot excels at science, beating PhDs on a hard science test. But it might ‘hallucinate’ more than its predecessors.

Pathogenic viruses and antibiotic-resistant bacteria thrive on plastic. The biohazard risks of this ‘plastisphere’ shouldn’t ...