SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

We now know the master gene that controls embryonic development in people. Called NANOG, its role has been identified...

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter.The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found...

There is a new record for tiny, powerful computer chips. IBM’s prototype chip is the size of a fingernail,...

Earlier this month it was announced that 92% of resident doctors voted yes and 79% of consultants voted for strike action.The BMA also said 90% of SAS (specialist, associate specialist and speciality) doctors voted in favour of strike action.Both...

The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via a chain of waterways. Its surface often appears dark, but each spring and summer it transforms into a striking expanse of...

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Perseverance strikes again with an intriguing — yet unresolved — clue in the search for past life on Mars.In an ancient river channel, the rover detected complex organic carbon within and on rocks, planetary scientist Ashley Murphy and colleagues...

Cairo — Egyptian archaeologists say they've uncovered remains and a myriad of artifacts in part of a Greco-Roman cemetery that dates back more than 2,300 years, revealing the evolution of funerary practices over some six centuries...

Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded on Mars and must somehow find a way to grow potatoes in the planet’s...

When an animal’s environment changes faster than the animal can adapt, its chances of survival can flat-line....