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Trying to grasp the brain's complexity is a little like trying to comprehend the vastness of space – it feels way beyond our ...

Analysis of a perfect jawbone found in Taiwan has given us new clues to the Denisovans, an enigmatic people with whom our ...

Scientists had thought that quasi-periodic eruptions kick off when an object such as a star or small black hole wanders a bit ...

New mothers who start hormonal contraception after giving birth may face a slightly increased risk of depression in the ...

Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny "ghost particles" that could solve some of the universe's ...

The behavioural effects of pharmaceutical pollutants have received relatively less attention, but laboratory studies show ...

A cruel consequence of advanced cancer is the profound apathy many patients experience as they lose interest in ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

Additives that are commonly found in ultra-processed foods could be increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes when mixed ...

Most of us would probably think of smoking or air pollution when it comes to lung cancer risk, but researchers have ...