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One of the astronauts aboard the International Space Station is undergoing a “medical situation”, forcing NASA to bring the ...

Cutting down boreal forest and sinking the felled trees in the depths of the Arctic Ocean could remove up to 1 billion tonnes ...

A man with auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut microbes produce intoxicating levels of alcohol, has been ...

The ice-covered island may be strategically important, but it's unclear that it could be a commercially viable source of ...

A comprehensive review confirms the benefits of exercise for treating depression, even if the exact reasons remain unclear ...

Calculations show that injecting randomness into a quantum neural network could help it determine properties of quantum ...

Evidence is mounting that specific gut bacteria are linked to sleep conditions, which may open the doors to dietary ...

For years, we've thought of autism as lying on a spectrum, but emerging evidence suggests that it comes in several distinct ...

An ambitious form of climate modelling aims to pin the blame for disasters – from floods to heatwaves – on specific companies ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren’t exactly sound – they travelled at half the speed of light and there ...

A standard industrial knitting machine has been modified to produce fabrics from tungsten wire coated in gold, which are used ...