The much-touted advice to take 10,000 steps a day for our health has been accused of lacking...
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A proposal to define the Anthropocene, a geologic epoch defined by human activity, has been rejected –...
Follow these tips to have a safe viewing experience during the upcoming North American total solar eclipse
Fetal cells retrieved from fluid in the uterus can now be turned into balls of cells called...
What did NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to sample Bennu discover? Mission leader Dante Lauretta says the asteroid could...
The ocean on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is one of the best places we have found to...
Mysterious green sunsets were reported after the massive eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 – now simulations show...
Tracking data shows that young white storks spend more time exploring new places, while older ones take...
MethaneSAT will orbit the planet 15 times a day to capture unprecedented amounts of data on methane...
Five new varieties of Penicillium roqueforti, the fungus used to make blue cheese, might rescue the fungus...
Genetic analysis of the California two-spot octopus reveals that the species has sex chromosomes, and they may...
Five elephant calves have been found buried in drainage ditches on tea-growing estates in India in a...
Five exomoon programmes have been picked for the James Webb Space Telescope, raising the hopes of finding...
A new understanding of what happens to the brain after a knock to the head is finally...
Researchers in the US Army are experimenting with commercial AI chatbots as battlefield advisers in war game...
