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India currently has a fairly small chip-manufacturing industry, but prime minister Narendra Modi wants the country to become a dominant player in the

A robotic dodecahedron that can collect tissue samples from deep-sea animals for later genetic analysis could speed up the identification of unknown s

Cheddar cheese’s distinct but often subtle flavour comes down to interactions between different bacteria, which cheese-makers could utilise to create

Covid-19 vaccines may offer better protection if they just target the omicron variant, rather than both omicron and the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain

Every couple of decades Saturn develops a huge storm, and now researchers have found that the atmosphere keeps chemical records of those storms for hu

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has assembled a team of researchers to make communication networks more secure by injecting t

In human beings, egg cells need to survive for about five decades, much longer than most other cell types – and they may achieve this unusually long l

An analysis of active US mines finds they already collect virtually all of the minerals the country needs for batteries, solar panels and wind turbine

D-Wave’s claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hundreds of years on classical machines have been undermined by two separ

A survey of more than 56,000 sun-like stars reveals that “superflares” that are linked to bursts of radiation which play havoc with electronics on Ear