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A simple structural tweak has dramatically enhanced the colour clarity and stability of heavy metal-free blue quantum dots.

Assessing the risks posed by chemicals is a difficult and imperfect business that reaches well beyond the scientific realm.

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Ring-shaped extrachromosomal DNA is implicated in many cancers. Rachel Brazil talks to the scientists trying to uncover their ...

To be awarded an official English Heritage plaque, the proposed recipient (nominated by members of the public) must have died ...

Health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has previously claimed that mRNA covid vaccines killed more people than they saved ...

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