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The failure of SpaceX's ninth Starship launch has raised fresh concerns about the future of the rocket, but is there any alternative to Elon Musk's approach to space?

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun's corona, showing our star as we've never seen it before ...

Quantum computers that correct their own errors usually require hundreds of thousands of qubits. Start-up Nord Quantique claims it can dramatically decrease that number - but many challenges remain ...

Antioxidants like cocoa flavanols may benefit heart health, brain ageing and the microbiome. Columnist Alexandra Thompson investigates whether it's time to rethink chocolate ...

A network of trenches, walls and enclosures built across the steppes of China and Mongolia 800 years ago seems to have been erected to control the flow of people, perhaps for tax reasons ...

For the first time, we have a method for extracting proteins from preserved soft tissues like brains - which could be a treasure trove of evolutionary information ...

Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the brink of collapse - one of many becoming less stable as global temperature rise ...

Understanding the neurological systems that produce the world inside your head can help you to harness its transformative power ...

Helen Ball's How Babies Sleep draws on anthropology and biology to help babies (and their parents) get a better night's sleep. It has some fascinating insights, but is somewhat impractical ...

We need to learn the lessons from an ingenious piece of research done in Sweden and radically change policies around interpersonal violence, says Jens Ludwig ...