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Fresh concerns have been raised over long-term use of antidepressants, with a new summary of evidence revealing limited ...

A giant scorpion that once roamed what is now England and Wales has been confirmed as the largest of its kind ever to exist, ...

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The weather on Earth can get pretty messy sometimes. But in space, it can be wild—and the effects can be far-reaching. Solar ...

Scientists say that they’ve just detected a massive cloud of gas some 3 billion lightyears in diameter, floating in space ...

We have a vaccine that prevents shingles. We have a vaccine that markedly lowers the risk of dementia. We have a vaccine that ...

Four-and-a-half billion years ago, a massive world, possibly as big as the moon or even Mars, orbited our sun before crashing ...

Do you occasionally hear a low buzzing or humming sound that doesn’t have a clear source? Then you’re among the estimated 2-4 ...

Stanford scientists have discovered a new type of immune cell that kills surrounding cells via explosion – a cellular ...

For decades, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been guided by one hopeful assumption: somewhere in the galaxy, ...

The International Space Station has been home to humans for over 25 years. And over the decades, those humans have helped ...