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

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Only 3 per cent of those with polycystic ovary syndrome reach perimenopause by the age of 46, which may allow them to ...

A site in Siberia has evidence of human presence 417,000 years ago, raising the possibility that hominins could have reached North America much earlier than we thought ...

A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...

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

Most people think the multiverse is just about "what-if" scenarios – other versions of you where you took that job in another city or turned left instead of right. But to a physicist, the multiverse ...

Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in the earth could be growing it naturally. Now one scientist says he has proof he’s found them ...

Could there be life on other planets, and if so, what would it look like? Astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell is hunting for alien ...

Delve into the detail of atomic physics. As the basic units of matter, atoms are the building blocks for everything in the universe. Once thought to be indivisible, we now know they can indeed be ...