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The unborn baby was in trouble. Its mother’s doctors, at a UK hospital, knew there was something wrong with the fetus’s blood, so they decided to perform an emergency C-section many weeks before the baby was due. But despite this, and…

There is a long and inglorious history of big boss businessmen (and they do tend to be male) interfering in politics. Henry Ford, for example, was not only viciously anti-union, but pro-Hitler. Howard Hughes was less picky – he gave cash…

The presence of some fungal species in tumors predicts -- and may even help drive -- worse cancer outcomes, according to a study from Weill Cornell Medicine and Duke University researchers. The study, which appears Sept. 29 in Cell,…

Secretary General of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Hans Ellegren, centre, Eva Olsson, left and Thors Hans Hansson, members of the Nobel Committee for Physics…

It’s also worth noting that the Mediterranean Sea is one of the most microplastic-polluted water bodies in the world: In 2020, scientists reported finding 2 million particles in a single square meter of sediment that was only 5 centimeters…

The first cast members of Dancing on Ice 2023 have been announced.The skating competition series will return in the new year with 11 celebrities trying to impress the judges as they learn the tricky art of ice skating.The last series was…

Scientists have made a key breakthrough in the quest to accurately predict fluctuations in the rotation of the Earth and so the length of the day -- potentially opening up new predictions for the effects of climate change. A team of…

Credit: Dr Jacob Kegerreis Scientists from Durham University's Institute for Computational Cosmology used the most detailed supercomputer…

The 2022 Nobel prize in Physics has been won by three researchers for their work on quantum mechanics.Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger have won the 10m Swedish kronor (£802,000) prize announced on Tuesday by the Royal…

Three scientists jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their work on quantum information science that has significant applications, for example in the field of encryption. Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and…