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Before the Romans captured Pompeii, the famous town was run by the Samnite people – and a dip in their public baths might ...

The world’s most powerful supercomputers can now run simulations of billions of neurons, and researchers hope such models ...

Sexual behaviour among same-sex pairs is common in apes and monkeys, and a wide-ranging analysis suggests it does boost ...

Combining two kinds of quantum computing devices could be just the trick for taking better images of faint, faraway ...

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The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it's unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of ...