There's something uniquely frustrating about the world of scientific discovery. We celebrate the names we know, the heroes ...

As soon as the anaesthetised rat stopped moving, the laboratory technician surgically removed its pancreas. There was no time to waste: the organ could only survive for about an hour outside the body.

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A reactor at the world's largest nuclear power plant that restarted for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima nuclear ...

New research reveals that Central Asia’s rugged terrain was molded by the vanished Tethys Ocean, millions of years before the Himalayas even rose.

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