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When competition for food is high, both chimps and bonobos sometimes rub their genitals together to cope

The Trump administration’s latest move to improve government efficiency has purged tech consultants that worked to improve government efficiency

Water is an essential part of life on Earth, and possibly elsewhere – and now it we know it may have formed not long after the start of the universe

A strange new conception of how time warps across the universe does away with cosmology's most mysterious entity, dark energy

We are starting to understand how Greenland sharks can live for centuries without commonly developing tumours

We can describe the quantum realm using straightforward mathematics – but once we try to translate these ideas into the real world, things get weird. Our quantum columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan explains why

Colossal Biosciences has altered several genes in mice to make them look more mammoth-like, but the company is far from its goal of fully resurrecting woolly mammoths by 2028

Soil fungi can make a compound that disrupts how cow stomachs produce the potent greenhouse gas methane

Encryption would normally be expected to slow down computation, but applying the tools of cryptography to "trick" an algorithm can actually make it work faster

DARPA scientists are exploring ways to grow massive biological objects, such as telescope antennas or huge nets to snag debris, in space

Colorectal cancers will soon be the number one cause of cancer death among people under 50. Could changes in lifestyle and environment be to blame?

John Scalzi, Silvia Park and Ai Jang all have new books out this month. Whether it’s time travel or a moon made of cheese that takes your fancy, there’s some sci-fi here for you

The DNA of Yersinia pestis bacteria has been found in a Bronze Age sheep, offering a clue to how the plague may have spread through prehistoric farming communities

Consuming dairy is increasingly being linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer, but the true relationship between the two is hard to untangle

The second-ever commercial landing on the moon comes amid a flurry of lunar exploration activity that will see around a dozen missions this year alone

When the US Federal Emergency Management Agency removed a map of future climate hazards from its website, researchers built their own version

Virtual reality could get more realistic thanks to scientists inventing an artificial tongue that can taste flavours, such as sourness and umami

Some researchers think OpenAI's giant and expensive latest model is a sign that tech companies cannot keep making progress by continually scaling up

Choreographer Wayne McGregor’s extraordinary new show, Deepstaria, is inspired by the marine life of the deep ocean

Golden-bellied capuchins are usually found in humid forests, but some populations appear to have adapted to life in drier habitats with the help of stone tools