A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

SpaceX pulled off a stunning achievement this week, conducting four launches in less than 48 hours with huge implications for the future of space exploration.

U.S.-based startup company Heliospect Genomics reportedly is offering wealthy couples embryo screening for IQ and other traits at $50,000 for 100 embryos.

The Orionids meteor shower peaks on Monday, but will continue to light up the sky through Nov. 22, as debris from Halley's Comet enters Earth's atmosphere.

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.

Police are hunting laughing yobs who filmed themselves hurling a cat off a bridge and posted the video on Snapchat.

Archaeologists have discovered a "remarkable" section of one of Britain's most important Roman roads in southeast London.

As many as 115 Post Office Branches and hundreds of jobs could be at risk following a strategic review held by Post Office Chairman Nigel Railton.

A mum-of-four was tragically found dead at her home following a fire.

Police were in pursuit for half an hour down narrow country lanes

Three people have been taken to hospital after a car mounted the pavement and smashed into a restaurant in Piccadilly Circus, the Metropolitan Police have said.

Greater Manchester Police launched a public appeal to help find Jane Burton on Tuesday morning but have paused the search after a body was found

The broadcaster opened up about how the condition made her late mum, Edna, angry and aggressive.

The spy writing star, whose series has become a huge television hit starring Gary Oldman, is to chair the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2025

Jill Parton, 46, suffered fatal injuries when she was hit by a freight train in Heaton Chapel in the early hours of June 3 this year, an inquest heard

Ryzen and Epyc chips have two main issues; L3 cache latency, and 'preferred core' tech.

And the Epic Games Achievements system will start to roll out next week.

Far Cry 6 is better than its predecessor, but only just.

GN owns audio brands like Jabra and sought a way into the eSports market.

It says these components will enable "the industry's highest DRAM bit density".

Micro machines meets Burnout in this surprisingly brilliant little racer.

Its latest roadmap suggests that if you want white fans, you should wait for an announcement in Q1 2022.

$329/£300 graphics card is said to be "future ready" for your 1080p gaming needs.

Andy delves deep into the caverns of this chassis. Worth £130?

An unusual and fascinating survival game with one of the most memorable enemies in years.

Alienware was born in a garage near Miami in 1996. The first Aurora arrived in 2004.

Meanwhile, the firm has announced LGA1700 upgrade kits for its existing AiO series.

Highly efficient SoCs offer up to 10 CPU cores, 32 GPU cores, 64GB of 400GB/s RAM.

After years trapped in licensing hell, the classic action-RPG is back. But does it still hold up in the days of Dark Souls?

The design is portable, modular and boasts of 5G connectivity.

Despite a shaky beginning, Turtle Rock's cooperative shooter is a worthy successor to Left4Dead.

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

Claims they are the world's fastest DDR5 memory kits, offer CL36-36-36-76 timings.

Doubled number of specialists should make up for the switch from the classic class system.

Depending on PC config you may see up to a 30fps uplift with anti-tamper tech ditched.

Featuring the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G, this case=heatsink PC costs from $2,179.

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

However, the comparative Win 11 AMD tests were on an unpatched (L3 cache, CPPC2) PC.

Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script.

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A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China.

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New research led by scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, Karolinska Institute and Linköping University provides a landscape view of the human sense of touch.

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Archaeologists say they have discovered the oldest known evidence for intensive ochre mining worldwide, at least 48,000 years ago, in Lion Cavern at Ngwenya in Eswatini, a landlocked country in southern Africa.

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DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms crucial for regulating gene expression in eukaryotic organisms.

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Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration events detected from beyond our Milky Way Galaxy.

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Using a laser-based detection system, archaeologists have discovered over 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures -- including a previously unknown Maya city named Valeriana -- in Campeche, Mexico.

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Sedimentary mineral deposits found on the surface of Mars may have been left by an ancient sea 3.5 billion years ago.

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A team of scientists from the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, TU Delft, and Caltech has developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons in the Solar System.

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The identification of a new hominin group called Denisovans was one of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade.

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This stunning new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is one of the best ever views of a galaxy duo called MCG+05-31-045.

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Scientists from the Leibniz Zentrum für Archäologie and Durham University have examined a collection of 406 engraved schist plaquettes found at the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf in Germany.

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