Two astronauts are about to set off for the International Space aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule. If all goes well, ...

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A quantum bit inspired by Schrödinger’s cat can resist making errors for an unprecedentedly long time, which makes it a ...

Information contained within quantum objects gets scrambled when they interact. Physicists have now derived a speed limit for ...

Head-bobbing seems to be a way for zebras to invite others to groom, graze or move together, suggesting sophisticated social ...

A ribbon of electrodes could nestle in the gut to help diagnose gastrointestinal diseases linked to Parkinson’s ...

A surprise discovery has revealed that female stink bugs have a small indent on their hind legs that they use for cultivating ...

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Plants are often celebrated for the parts that are easy to see – flower, leaves, fruit – but scientists are uncovering the ...

The inactivation of one copy of the X chromosome in female mammals may start to fail as they get older, which may be why ...

A male Sumatran orangutan chewed the leaves of a plant used in Indonesian traditional medicine and placed them on a wound on ...

Migrating flies can carry pollen hundreds or thousands of kilometres, and this could help plants adapt to climate change ...