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(University of Helsinki) On Saturday, June 23, 2018, a team of experts from Botswana, South Africa, Finland and the United States of America recovered a fresh meteorite in Botswana's Central Kalahari Game Reserve (CKGR).

Scientists have discovered fresh insights into the metallic core at the centre of our planet.

We are on the brink of a revolution in healthcare. AI is making the drug discovery process >100X faster and cheaper, and 90 percent more likely to succeed in clinical trials. Mobile health is predicted to become a $102 b...

A new study backs up previous findings that spending time outside and living close to nature has significant physical and mental health benefits.

Researchers report a variation of the MTNR1A gene is linked to an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in older people. The same gene has previously been implicated in reduced tolerance to shift work in the a...

Researchers have developed a new neuroimaging method to track neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease. The method helped uncover a new pathway for how degeneration spreads from one brain region to another.

Researchers explore why collective misremembering of common events and details occur. The study explains why our brain often plays tricks by convincing us we remember something in a certain way, when the events are oppos...

Researchers report personality traits in chimpanzees are correlated to the size of their hippocampus. The study reports greater hippocampal volume is linked to an increase in alpha behavior and decreased self regulatory ...

A new study questions previous assumption about how Parkinson's disease develops and progresses.

As the Tour de France begins, the world's largest sporting computer simulation shows how riders can get ten times less air resistance than previously thought

A seminal 1923 study on Stonehenge was exceptionally wrong.

We must wake up to the ecological apocalypse caused by intensive agriculture that is unfolding under our very noses, says Chris Packham

CERN's nuclear physics facility, ISOLDE, has minted a new coin in its impressive collection of isotopes. The facility has forged neutron-rich isotopes of the element chromium for the first time, and in prodigious quantit...

A massive operation is underway to rescue 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach, who have been trapped in a cave for nearly two weeks. But the rescue options are incredibly risky.

A diver died during an attempt to rescue the Thai youths trapped in a cave.

Two separate research fields have been united in Hamburg for the very first time. Ultrashort laser pulses enable us to observe and manipulate matter on very short time scales, whereas ultracold atoms permit experiments w...

It is six years ago that the discovery of the Higgs boson was announced, to great fanfare in the world's media, as a crowning success of CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The excitement of those days now seems a distan...

Tightly-worn ties have been found to impair the brain's blood supply, prompting one scientist to suggest that it's time to abandon them altogether

Don't worry -- that rain of blood in Siberia is probably just a metal factory's windswept garbage.

Women have been giving birth since the beginning of human existence, but sometimes, the ways they do so get a little strange.

A firefly kept right on flashing after being eaten by a frog.

A new material that harvests energy from the sun has promising defrosting abilities, so could make life easier for winter drivers