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British chemists David Klenerman and Shankar Balasubramanian joined French biophysicist Pascal Mayer in winning Spain’s top science award on Wednesday for DNA sequencing research that helped combat coronavirus.
A new study published in the May 2026 issue of the American Economic Review and authored by an international group of researchers gives a different perspective on how production and financial networks are at interplay. The research develops a framework…
SpaceX just revealed that it’s on the hunt for additional launch sites for its Starship megarocket, eyeing locations both inside and beyond the United States.
As digital nomads rethink where to live, researchers are exploring whether their choices can help close Europe’s urban-rural divide. New research suggests the shift to remote working could support rural regions, but only where infrastructure and policy align.
Horses were being ridden, worked, and traded long before anyone thought it possible. New research pushes back the accepted timeline of human use of horses by centuries, showing that humans used horses in organized ways as early as the 4th…
When Ted Lasso became the coach of last-place AFC Richmond on a popular television show, he jumped in with a can-do coaching style that ignited a team ready for change. Like Lasso, new leaders are more likely than their predecessors…
High-energy cosmic rays, 10 million times more powerful than particles accelerated in Earth’s strongest atom smasher, may hide a superheavy secret that is the key to unlocking a 60-year-old puzzle.
We hardly give them a second thought, but everyday objects like bags and backpacks belong to a long technological tradition that may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years.
Neanderthals had the know-how to identify a tooth infection and the motor skills to drill out the damage, according to a study published May 13, 2026, in the open-access journal PLOS One by Alisa Zubova of Peter the Great Museum…
Agriculture reached the coast of southern Denmark around 4000 BCE, but these prehistoric Scandinavians continued to fish and hunt too, according to a study published in PLOS One by Daniel Groß from the Museum Lolland-Falster, Denmark, Sofie Folsach Hellerøe from…