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Hexagonal diamond up to 60 per cent stronger than normal diamonds could be used to create super-tough drilling and cutting ...

Astonishing new archaeological finds and ancient DNA analysis leave no doubt that throughout prehistory women were rulers, ...

A giant stick insect species found in Australia’s Wet Tropics named Acrophylla alta can reach 40 centimetres in length and ...

Scientists have successfully extracted the world's oldest ice core at Little Dome C in East Antarctica. Extracted during the ...

Around 8 million years ago, an ancestor of modern tomatoes in South America hydridised with a plant called Etuberosum, and this reshuffling of genes gave rise to the potato ...

Satellite images reveal how a subglacial lake erupted through the Greenland ice sheet – a phenomenon never witnessed before ...

A battery made from cheap and non-flammable iron and salt could provide emergency power in one of California’s high wildfire ...

An analysis of thousands of forest plots reveals an underappreciated link between animal biodiversity and carbon storage ...

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Decades ago, a renegade physicist suggested that gravity isn't so much a force as just a byproduct of the universe's tendency ...

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