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TESTOSTERONE is a hormone with a reputation. Though both sexes generate the stuff, that reputation is macho. Numerous experiments on

THIS fossil dinosaur, called Borealopelta markmitchelli, is about the size of a rhinoceros. It belongs to a group of armoured

Fresh and CRISPRy “KEEP death off the road”, a Ministry of Transport slogan once enjoined the people of Britain. And

AFTER the events of March 11th 2011, when an earthquake and tsunami led to a meltdown of three nuclear reactors

FRICTION burns. And the friction of the air on something travelling at five times the speed of sound burns hot.

How the past saw the future of tunnelling A BIG hole in the car park at SpaceX’s headquarters in Los

TWO millivolts is not much. But it is enough to show that someone has seen something even before he knows

MEERKATS are endearing creatures. Indeed, they are so endearing that they have been turned into characters in a long-running series

HOLOGRAPHY is a useful technology, but somehow faintly disappointing. The fantasy is of a “Star Trek” style holodeck, or even

IT IS risky to predict who and what will win a Nobel prize. But some discoveries are so big that