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Meta allowed thousands of paid ads containing sexually explicit imagery on social media platforms, including Facebook and ...

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A new analysis of marsquakes measured by NASA’s InSight lander indicates Mars has a solid inner core – but other researchers ...

Trees dating back almost 6000 years have come to scientists' attention due to ice melting in the Rocky mountains, offering a ...

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

Suzie Imber is a co-investigator for the BepiColombo mission, currently on its way to Mercury. She explains how it will cast ...

G3 (ATLAS) should be visible from the southern hemisphere, and possibly also the northern hemisphere, over the next few days ...

A new technique involving lasers can measure long distances more precisely than ever, which could be useful for space ...

For the first time, atoms of the metal indium have been chilled to temperatures a few millionths of a degree above absolute ...

For decades, we studied only a tiny number of Antarctica's emperor penguins. Now robots and satellites are revealing ...

The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope can be made in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional ones.