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Every year, millions of people sing the beautiful carol Silent Night, with its line “all is calm, all is bright”.We all know the Christmas story is…
From a distance, it might have looked like a small child was wending her way through the waving grass along a vast lake. But a closer…
A distant exoplanet appears to sport a sooty atmosphere that is confusing the scientists who recently spotted it.The Jupiter-size world, detected by the James Webb Space…
Scientists may have witnessed a massive, dying star split in two and then crash back together, triggering a never-before-seen double explosion. The explosion sent ripples through…
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has permeated our lives in ways that go beyond virtual assistants like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa. Generative AI is…
Whether you’re cooking up chemistry, getting physical with physics or bending your mind over mathematics, one thing that remains constant is, well, constants. Some numbers are…
What if a single blood test could determine whether you had one of 14 types of cancer?That’s the question posed by a study published in November…
The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists’ ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way…
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere is the best season for stargazing with binoculars. The nights are long, the air is cold and the stars seem brighter…
The patient: A 30-year-old man in NigeriaThe symptoms: The man went to the urology unit of a hospital after urine had been leaking out of small…













