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Scientists fear climate change could "call time" on the great British pint and are helping the brewing industry to save it. Hops give bitter its...
Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what lies at the heart of a celebrated cosmic explosion. In February 1987, a star was seen exploding...
Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical research because its physiology is similar to...
Scientists at the University of Central Lancashire have discovered a gigantic, ring-shaped structure in space. It is 1.3bn light-years in diameter...
Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by UK astronomers reveals. Images from a space mission in...
How did a young man born 2,000 years ago near what is now southern Russia, end up in the English countryside? DNA sleuths have retraced his steps...
Researchers have located "the perfect solar system", forged without the violent collisions that made our own a hotchpotch of different-sized planets. ...
Many astronomers are no longer asking whether there is life elsewhere in the Universe. The question on their minds is instead: when will we find it?...
Scientists have made a key discovery about antimatter - a mysterious substance which was plentiful when the Universe began. Antimatter is the...
Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered tentative evidence of a sign of life on a faraway planet. It may have detected a molecule...
One of the creators of the world's first cloned mammal, Dolly the sheep, has died at the age of 79. Prof Sir Ian Wilmut's work, at the Roslin...
Tens of thousands of government and privately owned buildings should be safety checked because of crumbling RAAC concrete, experts say. The team that...