We've yet to see a falling piece of space debris strike an airplane, but if it happens, the consequences would almost ...

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In 2019 an international team of researchers identified 109 genes that were associated in different combinations with eight ...

Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island multiple times a day and sometimes only minutes apart.

The findings suggest that people who eat a greater variety of plant-based foods each week have a more diverse gut microbiome ...

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When the 'wood-wide web' was first described in the journal Nature in 1997, our view of plant life took on a utopian glean.

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A simple blue stain could force trees into giving up their memories of cold summers and volcanic winters, a recent study reveals, giving researchers a new way to precisely reconstruct ancient climates ...

Here's one more reason to think about cycling to work: a new study has found people who commute by bicycle tend to have fewer ...

Forced to run a labyrinth of carbon atoms uniquely arranged in twisted stacks, electrons do some rather peculiar things.

As I've grown older and experienced the vagaries of my ageing memory, I've often reflected on the possibility of a miracle ...