Each decade the world is losing over 7 per cent of its freshwater storage capacity to sediment build-up, according to an ...

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Mice seemed to reap some of the benefits of sleep by having their brain activity stimulated while they were awake, and the ...

Endometriosis is usually thought of as a gynaecological condition, but a huge study shows it has links with cholesterol ...

A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm ...

Two companies are aiming to preserve Arctic ice by pumping water onto the sheet and letting it freeze, but only one of the ...

The modern world depends on open-source software maintained by volunteers, but the added demands of checking and fixing ...

There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adrian Tchaikovsky or a ...

Mark Thomson has taken the reins at CERN just as particle physics confronts some of its deepest unknowns – and faces hard ...

From dementia to heart attacks, hearing loss has been linked to a wide range of effects across the body, and the condition is ...

A team in the US has reported promising results after using an improved form of CRISPR to gene-edit human embryos, but a ...

A seemingly simple set of rules kicks off a kind of mathematical magic trick, which has kept great minds busy since the 1930s ...