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A crumbling claim that appeared to reveal the workings of the big bang may instead say more about how science is done in an age of incessant news coverage. In March, researchers working with a specialized telescope at the South Pole, known as BICEP2, claimed that by studying the afterglow of the

Doctors in the UK are under increasing pressure to boost diagnosis rates. For example, GP practices have been set targets in dementia and can trigger an inspection if they fall behind in other clinical areas such asasthma, diabetes and even depression. There are understandable concerns that

The discovery, announced on Oct. 8 and published in the journal Nature, raises many questions and defies understanding of the physics that drives some extreme phenomena in our universe, like the ultra-luminous sources depicted above. This new mystery stellar corpse falls into a category of rare,

A perfectly preserved glass ‘witch bottle’ has been unearthed in Newark - three centuries after it was buried in the ground.  The green vessel is believed to have been used during the 18th century to ward off witches and evil spirits, and survived for so long because it was placed so carefully on

Bits of Mars have been caught in the act of floating off into space. The first images from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft show hydrogen, carbon and oxygen atoms escaping from the planet. MAVEN, the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution spacecraft, arrived at the Red Planet on September 21 and is designed