PCOS will now be known as PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome), and for Alice Klein, who has the condition, it's ...

Gases collected from boiling mineral springs in Zambia contain the chemical signature of having come directly from the ...

We will finally begin to untangle Mercury’s mysteries in 2026, as the BepiColombo spacecraft descend into orbit around the solar system’s innermost planet. BepiColombo consists of a pair of spacecraft ...

Around 175,000 years ago, Neanderthals ventured deep inside a cave in what is now France, broke off stalagmites and used them to build mysterious circular structures. Later on, bears moved in and ...

An analysis of ancient human artefacts finds that the container, a simple but critical tool, may have originated 500,000 ...

A 500-kilometre-wide object in a similar orbit to Pluto challenges our assumptions about small bodies in the outer solar ...

If a key ocean current collapses it could plunge northern Europe into a big freeze. Now researchers are weighing up a drastic ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

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

Two quantum computers and two supercomputers teamed up to break the record for the biggest molecule yet to be simulated using ...

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