Airstrikes on Tehran earlier this year emitted a plume containing almost 30,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide that reached Asian ...

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Men who do not produce sperm can’t be helped by existing fertility treatments, but a start-up is now claiming it can grow ...

An ongoing census of sea life in the South Atlantic has identified over 1000 new creatures, including a new species of sea ...

Residues on medical equipment reveal that physicians in China over 600 years ago used aconitine, a highly toxic plant chemical, to alleviate pain during surgical procedures ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts experience accelerated ageing could help us fight similar effects on Earth ...

A rewrite of quantum mechanics that includes the force of gravity could finally achieve one of physicists’ biggest goals and ...

Life on the International Space Station may feel distant, but columnist Graham Lawton finds that studying how astronauts ...

Despite being the closest planet to the sun, Mercury has thick deposits of ice at its poles, and now we may understand the ...

Women experience a steady rise in body temperature from their teens to midlife, which may be useful for monitoring ageing and overall health ...

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Storing carbon dioxide in rocks while producing hydrogen from them - and perhaps even geothermal power too - could be a ...