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When an asteroid threatens Earth, astronomers use a rating called the Torino scale to communicate the risk. Richard Binzel, ...

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When measuring yourself against your partner, which traits do you prefer to have compared with your significant other? A ...

Sara Phillips is an award-winning science journalist and editor who has previously worked for Nature, the Australian ...

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High-voltage copper plates can remove up to three-quarters of frost from a surface, while using much less energy than ...

The Omo-Turkana basin in Africa is home to a treasure trove of ancient human fossils and tools that span 300,000 years – today it is still yielding new discoveries about our species ...

For over a decade, mathematicians have failed to agree whether a 500-page proof is actually correct. Now, translating the ...