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TURKU, Finland — Beam me up, Scotty! In a study that seems straight out of a “Star Trek” episode, an international team of researchers has achieved a remarkable feat in the realm of quantum teleportation. They have successfully conducted near-perfect quantum teleportation despite the presence of noise that typically...

Humans are susceptible to tularemia and are typically exposed through tick or deerfly bites in the summer and from handling infected animals harvested during hunting and trapping seasons....

Decades of well-established research have linked nitrogen dioxide, or NO2, to respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which especially affect children and older adults. This harmful link is so well established that some states have begun banning gas appliances in new construction. And now...

Scientists say discovery may be linked to decades-long decline in sperm counts in men around the world...

The US Environmental Protection Agency on Friday classified two so-called “forever chemicals” as hazardous substances, meaning those responsible for releasing them will have to pay to clean up contamination....

An unknown number of orcas sunk a sailing yacht in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar on Sunday, according to Spain’s maritime rescue service. While orcas are typically peaceful, this is the latest in a string of attacks that have hit the region in the past four years....

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Human faeces in our rivers is putting the public in danger and the risk will increase without action, the UK’s top engineers and scientists have warned in a report....

Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe, suggest these predecessors to modern humans had a higher level of cognition and cultural development than previously thought.

In the future, the gel could be taken orally before or during alcohol consumption to prevent blood alcohol levels from rising and acetaldehyde from damaging the body. In contrast to many products available on the market, the gel combats not only the symptoms of harmful alcohol consumption but also its causes....

Although osteoarthritis affects more than 500 million people in the world, according to the World Health Organisation, there is no cure or any approved drugs to treat or prevent the disease and the only available treatments are painkillers, anti-inflammatory medications, and total joint replacement....

If Mars is anything like Earth, such a long-lived aqueous environment would be an ideal place for microbial life to form....

Plague is caused by the rod-shaped bacteria Yersinia pestis. Y. pestis can make us sick in different ways, depending on how the bacteria invade our body. When it’s transmitted through contact with animals (typically a flea that recently fed on another infected animal), the bacteria tend to make their way to our lymph nodes and...

It’s long been assumed that if alien civilisations do exist, they’re a hell of a lot smarter than we are....

This spring, billions of cicadas will emerge after more than a decade underground, ready to climb into the trees and make a ruckus as they sing to attract mates. But some of these insects won’t succeed in their goal of procreating — instead, they’ll be controlled like zombies into spreading a strange fungus that hijacks...

For the first time, researchers have simulated neurological junctions called synapses using the same water and salt ingredients the brain uses, contributing to an emerging field that combines biology with electronics called iontronics....

For nearly 25 years, we thought we knew how the Universe would end. Now, new measurements point to a profoundly different conclusion....

A world that bears more than a passing similarity to Earth has just been discovered orbiting a star just 40 light-years from the Solar System....

The unbelievable image shows a diamond-shaped object hovering in the sky, while a fighter jet flies behind it in the distance....

The U.S. EPA finalized four rules last week affecting natural gas and coal power plants. One of them marks the first time the federal government has ever forced existing coal plants to reduce their carbon emissions. If plants want to stay open past 2032, they’ll need to install carbon capture technology — which is still in...

There’s a gaping hole in the ocean floor so deep that scientists have yet to detect its end....

Ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of melting permafrost, almost like something out of a horror movie....

What the researchers found was that yes, there have been periods of elevated CO2 in the atmosphere far beyond ‘normal’ range – but those levels pale in comparison to what we’re now facing thanks to anthropogenic greenhouse-gas emissions....

There were a cluster of cases who were migrant workers working pretty much for family-based organisations, all of whom were working with no control. So no water suppression, no real PPE....

A new laboratory study suggests that human body lice are more efficient at transmitting Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that causes plague, than previously thought, supporting the possibility that they may have contributed to past pandemics....