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The share of computer science and engineering degrees going to women has increased at the most selective American universities over the past 20 years and is approaching gender parity, while the proportion has declined at less selective schools. Those are the main findings of a study my colleague and I…

The SpaceX chief’s powerful new system is set to slash the cost of missions, leaving Nasa in the dust

Call for illicit market to be taken out of hands of criminals as numbers continue to fall drastically due to poaching

A biologist hid 350 audio monitors across Costa Rica’s tropical rainforests to spy on endangered spider monkeys in order to help protect them

When you look in a mirror, the reflection is fundamentally you, but with a perfect reversal of all your features. This illustrates a phenomenon we also see in the tiny world of molecules.

Scientists have identified some of the involved genes behind cats' spots, but there's still a piece missing.

Experts warn that mirror bacteria, constructed from mirror images of molecules found in nature, could put humans, animals and plants at risk of lethal infections

Interbreeding started around 47,000 years ago and lasted thousands of years

An analysis of genomes from some of the earliest modern humans to live in Europe reveals their ancestors interbred with Neanderthals in one period between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago.

The announcement by Science Minister Judith Collins this week that half of New Zealand’s sole fund for fundamental science will now go to research with economic benefits – with social sciences and the humanities no longer supported – came as a shock to many.

Scientists have designed special immune cells that protect transplanted pancreatic cells from attack in mice.