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Laid down on this operating table are the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed Yana. On 27 March, scientists ...

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A cost-cutting initiative in the world of passenger aviation could see flight-deck staff reduced to just a captain, with ...

Our hero Mickey accidentally breaks the rules when he's "reprinted", in a tired take on an old trope, finds film columnist ...

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have ...

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Squeezing exercise into one or two days a week seems to have similar health benefits as doing the same amount of physical ...