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Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name — and that creates ...

Brain–computer interfaces being trialled in China offer some advantages over Neuralink and other leading US devices.

A material that emits less energy than it absorbs has the potential to save some of the sunlight wasted by solar collectors.

Building autopoietic biochemical systems requires in situ tRNA synthesis, which remains challenging. Here, authors achieve continuous production of all 21 tRNAs in a PURE system using optimized ...

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The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

The manure of farmyard animals such as pigs is a major source of antibiotic-resistance genes, which can pose a risk to human ...

Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Emerging ‘co-scientist’ systems use teams of chatbots to mimic the deliberations of a research group. Do they really help?

Abstracts included telltale words, such as ‘unparalleled’ and ‘invaluable’, that are common in text generated by large ...