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Taking metformin, a type 2 diabetes drug, has been linked to a lower risk of dementia over the following decades, but the ...

Hundreds of millions of tonnes of plastic pollution are created each year. One option may be to turn the pollution into food, ...

After years of searching, mathematicians have found dice that can allow five players to fairly decide who moves first in a board game, with a winner guaranteed from just a single roll ...

Renowned climate scientist James Hansen says the developing super El Niño has already "blown past" previous events with ...

Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter – or ...

Official' projections for how much the world will warm are already catastrophic, and now it appears they significantly ...

The cooling of the North Atlantic is creating waviness in the jet stream and high-pressure ridging over Europe, a study finds ...

Intense fires are already burning in Indonesia, and there could be much worse to come as the Super El Niño ramps up ...