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A new retrospective of M.C. Escher’s work opens this week. Explore some of his most mind-bending, mathematically inspired works.

A team in the US has reported promising results after using an improved form of CRISPR to gene-edit human embryos, but a ...

Scientists warn that the Trump administration's push to dismantle a vital network of ocean-sensing instruments will stymie ...

The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing ...

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Parents report loving their partners less within the first year of having a child, but that doesn't mean the feeling is ...

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm ...

Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental movement ...

A glacier could have carried the giant sandstone at the centre of Stonehenge southwards from north-east Scotland, but this ...

Finally, we’ll kill off all life as we know it – if the speed of light is cut in half, the magnetic constant and the ...