A drone strike at the Chernobyl exclusion zone has caused a fire that has spread to 12 square kilometres of land. Dry weather ...

Satellite measurements show that in the early 2010s sea level rise suddenly accelerated to a rate of 4.1 millimetres per year, possibly in response to an increase in the rate of global warming ...

Many flowering plants have duplicated genomes, which could have helped them evolve to deal with extreme stress in times of ...

The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius and ...

Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which may allow them to ...

How important is thinking about your breath for calming yourself down? We now know that slow breathing is effective even ...

An impression made in clay around 175,000 years ago could be a kneeprint left by one of the builders of a strange stalagmite ...

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A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...

A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures and could help find a ...

Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these claims ...

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback ...