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Hexagonal diamond up to 60 per cent stronger than normal diamonds could be used to create super-tough drilling and cutting tools for industrial applic

Rather than recalling and focusing on fearful thoughts, it might sometimes be useful to avoid these imaginings to boost our well-being and avoid sympt

Antarctic sea ice extent has fallen dramatically in recent years – the effects include accelerated ocean warming, faster loss of inland ice sheets and

Seismometers normally used to detect earthquakes are being used to identify the time and location of explosions during the ongoing Russian invasion of

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe

Insect-sized robots that can crawl, hop and turn by harnessing the power of explosions can be cheaply produced for a range of applications

The best pictures we have of the sun yet have been delivered thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft

High-frequency waves in specific regions of the brain are thought to be a hallmark of consciousness – now they have been recorded surging in two peopl

A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years, and perhaps even have altered the planet’s climate

The highly unstable radioactive element promethium is hard to study in the lab, but chemists have now coaxed it into forming a compound in water so th