As the world marks the 80th year of the liberation of the Nazi death camp, author Thomas Harding is one of the few people who met the family of the mastermind of Auschwitz. Here, he recalls exactly wh ...

The Palestinian militant movement Hamas released four female Israeli soldier hostages, in return for some 200 Palestinian ...

The race is underway to determine the new Liberal leader and Canada’s next prime minister. Former deputy prime minister ...

Heisenberg, who would later win the Nobel Prize for Physics, famously came up with quantum mechanics on a two-week vacation ...

In Bohr’s 1913 papers he envisaged atoms along the lines established by his mentor Ernest Rutherford: dense nuclei orbited by ...

Attosecond science allows the extremely fast movements of electron particles to be observed. This emerging field brings both ...

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in ...

Across 30 principal investigators (11 scientists and 19 clinician-scientists), the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology has a portfolio of basic and translational research into ...

Pokemon TCG Pocket fans have become increasingly frustrated with a time-consuming mechanic that’s actually causing some to battle less. This has led to a reshaping of the meta with powerful new ...

It is not a world first, as the University of Colorado at Boulder developed a quantum clock 15 years ago with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and ... A quantum clock uses quantum mechanics -- ...

But scientists at The Francis Crick Institute in London recently took the challenge to heart and successfully developed human stem cells models with notochord tissue. During the development of an ...

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