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Leading scientists and businesses have said that cuts to the government's research risks "stalling" efforts to make the UK a science superpower.
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Leading scientists and businesses have said that cuts to the government's research risks "stalling" efforts to make the UK a science superpower.
The world's burning of coal, oil and natural gas this year is putting 1% more heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the air than last year, bad news for the fight against climate change but with an odd twist, according to scientists who track emissions.
A new planet-hunting instrument at W. M. Keck Observatory has achieved "first light," capturing its first data from the sky and marking an exciting chapter in the search for Earth-sized planets around other stars, which are extraordinarily difficult to detect due to their small size. Operating on the Keck I Telescope on Hawaiʻi Island's Maunakea, the Keck Planet Finder (KPF) is the world's most...
There's an awkward, irksome problem with our understanding of nature's laws which physicists have been trying to explain for decades. It's about electromagnetism, the law of how atoms and light interact, which explains everything from why you don't fall through the floor to why the sky is blue.
Researchers from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, estimated the possible climatic impact of the leaked methane by adopting the energy-conservation framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Sixth Assessment Report.
Social connections are essential for good health and well-being in social animals, such as ourselves and other primates. There is also increasing evidence that the gut microbiome—through the so-called "gut-brain axis"—plays a key role in our physical and mental health and that bacteria can be transmitted socially, for example through touch.
The water flow where adult fish live can affect the body shape and survival of their offspring, according to new research.
There is a 50% chance dangerous warming limit will be breached in nine years, experts say.
Three different moments in a far-off supernova explosion were captured in a single snapshot by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The star exploded more than 11 billion years ago, when the universe was less than a fifth of its current age of 13.8 billion years.
Computational scientists adopt new framework for making AI models more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.
Researchers have discovered factors that may make breast and ovarian cancers associated with BRCA1/2 gene mutations more likely to recur.
Researchers have captured the first real-time footage of viruses on the move, right before they hijack a cell.
Global carbon emissions in 2022 remain at record levels -- with no sign of the decrease that is urgently needed to limit warming to 1.5°C, according to the Global Carbon Project science team.
When the temperatures drop, tiny ice crystals form in the atmosphere, acting as small mirrors reflecting any light beaming up at them from...