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The closer we look at the universe, the more beautiful and baffling it becomes. Here are the 10 most epic space structures discovered in 2021.

In fruit fly models, an ABCA1 agonist can restore specific alterations of neuroprotective mechanisms associated with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's disease.

Are you thinking about going green in 2022? Cutting your personal carbon footprint can help, but it is important to engage with others and encourage wider efforts to tackle climate change, says climate scientist Katharin...

COVID-19 vaccination of expectant mothers elicits levels of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2 outer 'spike' protein at the time of delivery that don't vary dramatically with the timing of vaccination during pregnancy and thus...

A healthy, comprehensive diet that lowers the body's inflammation reduces the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus, reveals a new study.

A new study shows that among patients with obesity, prior weight loss achieved with bariatric surgery was associated with a 60 percent lower risk of developing severe complications from COVID-19 infection.

The world's peatlands hold twice as much carbon as all its forests, but exploitation has destroyed a fifth of them. Now scientists are using pioneering moss transplants and flooding to restore their natural function

A new glut of non-fiction books promises to inspire us to discover the world - and protect

Surprising new insights about the strange physics underlying how clocks work could transform our understanding of time's arrow - and hint at how time works at the quantum scale

In 2021, the US approved the first drug designed to treat the cause of Alzheimer's, but the European Union rejected it. Whether the drug can actually treat the chief symptoms of the disease will be a point of contention ...

The coronavirus will continue to evolve and could trigger further waves of infections, requiring more vaccinations and boosters

To inspire other countries at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference, China will need to be seen as part of the solution rather than part of the problem, but has a surprising good news story to tell, says Graham Lawton

The mystery of the museum-dwelling mammals that fluoresce like platypus, plus sending letters to the sun and some very shouty songbirds, in Feedback's weekly round-up

The This by Adam Roberts, Mickey7 by Edward Ashton and Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak by Charlie Jane Anders are just some of the treats we are looking forward to this year

Signs of accelerating global warming abounded this year, but we could still prevent the worst-case scenarios -- if we act soon.

If 2020 was all about the pandemic, 2021 was supposed to be about things getting back on track. Let’s just say it was a mixed bag. Along with a slower-than-hoped rollout of vaccines, the virus has had some evolutionary...

Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilization--harvesting, then domestication of crop plants--began only ar...

Researchers have shown in mice models of Alzheimer's disease, frontotemporal dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies, that the intranasal administration of rifampicin and resveratrol in combination is safer and improves ...

Here are the 10 best volcano stories published in 2021.

Here's a rundown of some of the nature discoveries that wowed us this year.

The go-to advice for effective dieting is to choose food that is marketed as healthy and is low in calories, carbs and fat - but the way we think about such meals might actually cause us to gain weight

Naturalist and ant expert Edward O. Wilson, who died on 26 December, made at least five seminal contributions to ecology and was passionate about finding a more sustainable way for humans to live on Earth