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A programme that offers scans to smokers between the ages of 55 and 74 detects a large number of early-stage lung tumours.

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In 1989, the Komsomolets burst into flames and sank, taking with it the plutonium in its nuclear reactor and two nuclear ...

In these experiments, people who interacted with a sycophantic chatbot were more likely to say that they were in the right ...

Scans of more than 3,500 people allow scientists to draw up a guide to the brain areas that work together from birth to 100 ...

‘Forever’ chemicals, so called because they do not break down in the environment, have reached even the ends of the Earth.

With government funding in decline, researchers should prioritize data collation and training the next generation of ...

As the country looks to commercial companies to drive innovation, it has a golden opportunity to support open science and ...

The ability to automate the discovery process in some areas of scientific inquiry raises unanswered questions about how ...

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