We’ve long tried to control the weather by engineering rainfall. Now such cloud-seeding efforts are escalating, creating conflict between countries and stoking conspiracy theories. But do they work?

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

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

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

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

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Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which may allow them to ...

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 ...