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The virus resembles no other previously discovered strains – a feature that might complicate ongoing efforts to develop a universal vaccine

A new film dramatises the relationship between a young Einstein and English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington, at a time of war and great scientific change

A microscope equipped with a strobe-like electron source can capture the movement of atoms with unprecedented clarity

A third species of bottlenose has been discovered in the waters off southern Australia – it is only the second new dolphin in 50 years

People become more disobedient in environments where people obviously flout rules or social norms – backing up the "broken window" theory of degenerating neighbourhoods

A revised distance for a galaxy thought to be a loner shows it actually has neighbours – a fact that explains its stellar baby boom

Underground glaciers around the planet's midsection contain the largest deposits of ice outside the polar regions

The apparently solid stuff is no more than fluctuations in the quantum vacuum, fiendishly complex calculations confirm

Junior baboons follow their leaders blindly, even though they are often denied food as a result

Infrared light can stimulate neurons in the inner ear as precisely as sound waves, a discovery that could lead to better cochlear implants