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All life as we know it uses the exact same energy-carrying molecule as a kind of 'universal cellular fuel'. Now, ancient chemistry may explain how that all-important molecule...

The global coronavirus pandemic affected just about everyone across the globe in ways that we're still trying to understand. It appears that one of the effects is that...

The devastating loss of a pair of newborns has provided critical insights into a rare set of blood types spotted for the first time in humans 40 years...

Science fiction is the realm where people traditionally wrestle with the idea of contact with an ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence). But now, those discussions are migrating from science fiction...

The Moon could have formed immediately after a cataclysmic impact that tore off a chunk of Earth and hurled it into space, a new study has suggested.Since the...

The 2022 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists for pioneering experiments in quantum mechanics, the theory covering the micro-world of atoms and...

The vast number-crunching capabilities of artificial intelligence systems mean we can better predict the future of chaotic systems based on fewer and fewer patterns of the past –...

Have you ever had that weird feeling that you've experienced the same exact situation before, even though that's impossible?Sometimes it can even seem like you're reliving something that...

A pair of legs belonging to what could be the largest bird species that ever stalked our planet have been unearthed from an outback fossil site in central...

Scientists don't know much about what the very first mammal looked like, but they do know that it lived around 180-250 million years ago and that every mammal...

Great white sharks have been strangely absent off the coast of South Africa in recent years, with suspicions for their decline in numbers falling onto that other most...

As the world braces for a third consecutive year of exceptional La Niña conditions, a new study reveals how our climate models might have missed this disastrous 'triple-dip'...