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A robot that can learn to open most types of doors, cabinets, drawers and refrigerators – without human direction – may pave the way for your future r

Ancient and fragile papyrus samples are at risk of being damaged by fungi, but a wasabi-based treatment can disinfect them without damage

A black hole would be tough to destroy, but in the season two premiere of Dead Planets Society our hosts are willing to go to extremes, from faster-th

India’s space agency has been remarkably successful in recent years, growing the country’s prestige on the global stage – and the 2024 election is unl

An analysis of 20,000 metal objects from Bronze Age Europe suggests human economic behaviour may not have changed much over the past 3500 years

A new technique uses glowing molecules, laser light and microscopes to measure distances as minuscule as 0.1 nanometres – the width of a typical atom

After delays and false starts, Jeff Bezos’s firm Blue Origin has reached orbit with its first launch of the New Glenn rocket, though attempts to land

Intuitive Machines’s Athena spacecraft has landed on the surface of the moon, but it seems to have fallen over and we don’t yet know if it will be abl

The gas giant WASP-121b, also known as Tylos, has an atmospheric structure unlike any we have ever seen, and the fastest winds on any planet

In children with anorexia nervosa or other restrictive eating disorders, changes in the brain’s outer layer don’t seem to be due to lack of nutrition