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Every baby has around a hundred new genetic mutations moodboard – Mike Watson/Getty Images I hate to...

Cells containing human and plant DNA reveal something fundamental about our genome Es sarawuth/Shutterstock How much of...

When numbers get large, things get weird Jezper / Alamy In 2025, the edges of mathematics came...

Advances delivered what may feel like medical miracles, including the first bladder transplant, a lifesaving personalized gene...

Mount Etna erupting European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery Mount Etna in Sicily is the world’s most active...

NASA’s Perseverance rover, the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith NASA/JPL-Caltech On Mars,...

Practical quantum computers are moving closer to reality Alexander Yakimov / Alamy Fully practical quantum computers haven’t...

Living things produce “biophotons” Mike_shots/Shutterstock This year, scientists observed an eerie glow emanating from mice that disappears...

Bill Bryson David Levene/eyevine Rowan Hooper: Bill, when I mentioned in the office that you were coming...

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