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The High Court will hear judicial reviews brought by Friends of the Earth, ClientEarth and the Good Law Project challenging the lawfulness of the flagship plan

A computer capable of achieving quantum advantage – a demonstration of supremacy over conventional machines – is the first that anyone can use over the internet

When people in the Czech Republic learned that a high number of doctors intended to take a covid-19 vaccine, they were slightly more likely to get the vaccine themselves

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The Formica fusca ant species was trained to move towards urine samples produced by mice with human breast tumours

A visa scheme intended to encourage Nobel prize laureates and other scientific award winners to work in the UK has attracted just one successful applicant since its launch a year ago

The fashion industry, which has become one of the most damaging to the planet, is having a moment of reckoning. But which changes make a difference, and which ones just come out in the wash?

From renting clothes to ditching the tumble drier, there are plenty of things you can do to reduce the environmental price tag of your wardrobe

An analysis of drywood termite DNA shows the wood-dwelling insects have crossed the oceans at least 40 times in their history, probably rafting inside driftwood

Some offspring of the spotted snow skink, a lizard found in Tasmania, are born anatomically male but are genetically female

A seagrass off the west coast of Australia has grown to be the biggest clonal organism in the world by repeatedly cloning itself to make more and more genetically identical shoots

The Omni-Roach robot moves like a cockroach to scale bumps, dodge pillars and wobble through bendy bars, and may become a Mars explorer in the future

In the desert of New Mexico, a centrifuge taller than the Statue of Liberty is being tested as an energy-efficient way to send satellites to space

An analysis of zinc isotopes in ancient shark teeth suggests megalodon and great whites ate the same foods, potentially contributing to megalodon’s mysterious extinction

An analysis of zinc isotopes in ancient shark teeth suggests megalodon and great whites ate the same foods, potentially contributing to megalodon’s mysterious extinction

A damaged liver that was kept alive and repaired in a machine for three days outside the body before transplantation is functioning normally in the recipient a year later

People with type 2 diabetes aged 50 to 80 performed worse on cognitive tests and experienced a faster rate of brain shrinkage than those without the condition

Frontier, a supercomputer built by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is the first capable of an exaflop - a billion billion operations per second

Small modular reactors produce higher volumes and greater complexity of radioactive waste because they are naturally less efficient, researchers find

A synthetic membrane that contains key proteins used in cell division could one day help artificial cells replicate themselves