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The latest coronavirus figures from the UK's Office for National Statistics show that around 2.7 million people had covid-19 in...

The gun safety law forged through tense bipartisan talks in the Senate last month has been heralded as the first...

Greg Clark must think twice before giving the green light to the UK's first new coal mine in decades. It...

The thought of transplanting another person’s poop into your colon may sound unpleasant, and understandably so. Feces are a smelly...

Pure mathematics fascinates me, precisely because it is so inaccessible. I envision it as a remote, chilly, perilous realm, like...

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Last month, government officials met in Washington, DC, for the first Monarch Butterfly Summit, just as the milkweed in the...

When Erinn Baldeschwiler was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer in March 2020, the then 48-year-old mother of two...

When it comes to something as complex as space-time, intuition comes in different ways, depending on the level of science...

Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more Humans 6 July 2022 Josie...

This vivid guide takes us into the exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant that exploded in 1986, revealing a...

A computer algorithm can use a technique called "ghost imaging" to reconstruct objects from a person's brainwaves that the person...

Optimising the wheat genome could help us double yields of the crop, according to plant scientists – although other researchers...

A dinosaur discovered in Argentina has been identified as a new species. Meraxes gigas lived 20 million years before T. rex,...

Aerial surveys have found groups of up to 150 fin whales feeding near Antarctica, a sign that populations have bounced...

A cheap and easily manufactured material can act as a thermal conductor at low temperatures and an insulator at high...