Nostalgia for video games seems to be strongest for those played during childhood – at least for Nintendo Switch players ...

Pandigital sums. Set by Colin Beveridge. A pandigital sum is an addition that uses each of the digits from 0 to 9 exactly ...

A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have ...

Drug trials are vital to medicine, but what of those taking part? Jennie Erin Smith's moving new book about what happened in ...

Why are some people drawn towards exploration and challenge – even to the point of extreme danger? Alex Hutchinson's bracing ...

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Laid down on this operating table are the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth nicknamed Yana. On 27 March, scientists ...

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Our hero Mickey accidentally breaks the rules when he's "reprinted", in a tired take on an old trope, finds film columnist ...

A cost-cutting initiative in the world of passenger aviation could see flight-deck staff reduced to just a captain, with ...

A company in the Netherlands says it has perfected a way to create "graft chimeras" with the skin of one plant and the ...

Squeezing exercise into one or two days a week seems to have similar health benefits as doing the same amount of physical ...