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The leader of a proposed compact fusion reactor project says that Lockheed Martin’s decision to lift the lid on its secret effort is an attempt to build a scientific team and find partners. Speaking yesterday at a press conference at the company’s facility in Palmdale, California, Tom McGuire

Underwater archaeologists looking for buried treasures from an ancient shipwreck in Greece have completed their first 'spacewalk under the sea'. The high-tech 'Exosuit' is being used to explore the Antikythera shipwreck, and has allowed them to dive to more than double the depths of previous

When Stephen Hawking (played by Eddie Redmayne) first tries out his now-iconic computerized voice, his wife Jane (Felicity Jones) is aghast: “It’s American!” she says. That line draws a laugh, but it also highlights a pivotal draw of The Theory of Everything: That American-accented robotic voice is

Strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to most of the drugs used to treat them are spreading rapidly across the former Soviet Union and pose a serious global threat, warn doctors. Drug-resistant TB has been found everywhere in the world. According to the World Health Organisation’s 2014 global

Every couple of days, the World Health Organization (WHO) issues a “situation update” on the Ebola epidemic, with new numbers of cases and deaths for each of the affected countries. These numbers―9216 and 4555 respectively, according to Friday’s update―are instantly reported and tweeted around the