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A fossil jawbone found by fishers in the Taiwan Strait has extended the known range of ancient Denisovan people thousands of ...

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to know which of the quantum computers now in development have ...

Thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope, we now know that a day on Uranus lasts for 28 seconds longer than previously thought – ...

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Computers that use photons rather than electrons to manipulate data promise greater speed and energy efficiency, and the ...

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Unusual rocks on an Icelandic beach were dropped there by icebergs, adding to evidence that an unusually cool period preceded ...