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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 ...

The race to build a moon base is ramping up. Columnist Robin George Andrews explores how NASA is preparing by sending a ...

Dry soil and high pressure can amplify extreme heat, helping to explain why regions like Europe are suffering ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...