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Russia’s new ballistic missile flies on a high arc out of Earth’s atmosphere and releases multiple high-speed projectiles, ...

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An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

This year hasn’t been a great one for the environment, so a book about the long history of environmental damage may be a hard ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

Scientists studying puppy cognition explore the impact of breeding versus training, shed new light on milestones in dogs' ...