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With US President Donald Trump and other sceptics calling climate change a hoax, the UN's climate science body must tell the ...

The custom-built microscopy system allowed researchers to film the very instant an influenza virus attaches itself to a cell ...

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Researchers hope a study will reveal the mechanisms behind the change from ankle-driven walking in youth to more knee and hip ...

Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...