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The four periods of a year vary by location.

Move over amber. When it comes to preserving soft-bodied animals through the ages, there's a newcomer in town: fossilised leech "cocoons"

Wake up, check phone. Go to work, look at computer. Go home, play with tablet watch TV check phone look at computer. Go to bed. When your life is constantly connected, it can be hard to disconnect from work. But as this ...

Radio telescopes have been sifting the stars since 1937. Most slowly scan a small percent of the sky. But that’s about to change. A new radio telescope will be the fastest sky surveyor yet—and itâ€...

The cost of screening all US athletes for heart abnormalities could reach $10 million per life saved – providing defibrillators everywhere may be better

See what happens inside a kettle when liquid overheats, creating a boiling crisis

Researchers in Germany have found a new way to make a flu vaccine. Their approach, shown to protect mice against the virus, utilizes messenger RNA instead of purified protein to generate the immune response. If it proves...

Scientists need to talk to more than just each other.If you’ve ever talked to a scientist, you know they usually have pretty strong opinions that they are not shy about expressing. Except, apparently, in the comme...

From scores of science-inspired stories, our judge has narrowed down a fantastic shortlist. Story one of five: Digital Eyes by Tamara Rogers

Despite doubts over its capabilities, North Korea intends to launch a long-range rocket this month, heightening tensions with its neighbours

Has the cosmos existed forever, or did something bring it into existence? Time to grapple with the universe's greatest mystery, says Marcus Chown (full text available to subscribers)

These Algerian oases start looking like footprints on a beach as they stretch out toward the horizon, but the water's underground, not up ahead

Why should washrooms have more sinks than hand dryers? A novel patent answers that thorny question

The SpaceX founder says he'd like to "die on Mars". Why the obsession with going to the Red Planet?