Playing a mental speed-training game seems to help the brain clear a protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease in men, but may ...

Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar found ...

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An experimental immunotherapy has beaten aggressive brain tumours in a handful of children, and a personalised version is now ...

Two types of jet stream patterns seem to be causing persistent heat domes over Europe, with big questions for the future ...

Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago ...

Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually ...

Millions of people were safely evacuated due to tsunami warnings rapidly issued after a powerful earthquake rumbled off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula on 29 July. Though the quake didn’t ...

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