As apparent acts of sabotage cut undersea data cables around the world, NATO held its first demonstration of a project to ...

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By using MRI brain scans to identify regions linked to hand movements and sensations, researchers were able to restore a sense of touch to two people with paralysis – and one was able to control and f ...

Rebutting the serotonin theory of depression exposed an important gap in our knowledge. But Joanna Moncrieff's new book ...

Neolithic people buried hundreds of stones carved with images of the sun about 4900 years ago and they may have done it ...

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We have long been inspired by the idea that life could reside on Mars – human or otherwise. But fiction is getting closer to ...

A jawbone found in a Moroccan mine was thought to be a novel species of marine reptile from the Cretaceous period, but other researchers believe it is probably a fake ...