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No one is expecting COP31 to save the world from climate disaster, but it could provide a small taste of how international ...

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The Hubble Space Telescope faces a fiery and fatal re-entry to Earth's atmosphere sometime around 2032, but NASA is asking ...

The first engineered structure built to last for 100,000 years is about to begin operations. The hope is that Onkalo, deep ...

Satellites show that the ocean around a gyre of plastic detritus in the Pacific is brightening and changing colour, with the ...

Parkinson's disease is linked to toxic protein clumps and disrupted brain waste removal, which may feed off each other, ...

Bursts of vigorous physical activity, such as carrying heavy shopping or rushing for the bus, seem to have a significant ...

Explore northern Iceland's volcanoes, lava fields and dramatic landscapes with expert volcanologist Dr Dave McGarvie. Make ...

A magnet barely wider than a human hair is one of the fastest spinning objects ever and could be useful for both fundamental ...

Verica, a British ruler who encouraged the Roman emperor Claudius to launch an invasion, may not have been the man historians ...

Psychoactive compounds have been found in a hair from a Scythian tomb in Siberia, providing the earliest direct evidence of ...