The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius and ...

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A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures and could help find a ...

Should you really wear sunscreen all year round, even in winter? We are often told to wear SPF throughout the year – but the science behind this advice is nuanced. The truth may depend on where you ...

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback ...

Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pain. Many of these claims ...

Ancient humans managed to live on the Tibetan plateau, the highest plateau on Earth, during the coldest period of the past 2.5 million years, demonstrating their resilience and adaptability. The last ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...

Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be ...

Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally beginning to investigate ...