It’s 7.40am, 20 minutes before the exam is due to begin, and Hayden is still asleep. Has he slept through his alarm, exhausted from late-night cramming? Nope. The only work he’s done for this exam is ...

The history of genomics has long been a story of reading a book where only every fiftieth page made sense. While the Human Genome Project gave us the full sequence of human DNA over two decades ago, ...

The Trump administration may have shuttered Direct File — the IRS’s short-lived experiment in tax-preparation software — but it doesn’t mean you have to pay to file your taxes. There are plenty of ...

IRS Direct File, a free online system for filing federal taxes, has been scrapped for 2026. Almost 300,000 people used IRS Direct File in 2025. So, are they out of luck, along with millions of others ...

A core tenet of quantum theory was imperilled this year when a team of researchers put forward a radical new interpretation of an experiment about the nature of light. At the centre of the new work ...

SINGAPORE, Dec 17 (Reuters) - In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built what Washington has spent years trying to prevent: a prototype of a machine capable of producing the ...

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Donald Trump has signed the bill that ends the longest government shutdown in American history and sets in motion the return of federal prohibition for most hemp-derived products. The Senate passed ...

The Army is overhauling how it fights in combat based on lessons from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, where drones have become the dominant weapon on the battlefield. The service is rethinking tank ...