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Metal-making practices described in a 2300-year-old text called the Kaogong Ji are more sophisticated than anyone realised

An international collaboration of scientists has created and observed an entirely new class of vortices--the whirling masses of fluid or air.

Researchers say, for the majority of people, taking daily multivitamins does little to prevent diseases or extend lifespan.

Older adults who spend their free time embarking on intellectually stimulating activities, such as reading, writing, or making crafts, have a 23% lower risk of developing dementia. Additionally, those who exercise and sp...

Wildfires in Alaska have already burned more than three times as much territory as usual, and fire season isn't over - the environmental effects could last decades

Neuroimaging study reveals brain changes in students are better indicators of learning than test scores.

Similarly to marmots, a brown bat species (Eptesicus fuscus) expresses reduced ageing biomarkers while hibernating

Researchers identified a pathway that begins in the gut and ends with a pro-inflammatory protein in the brain that appears to contribute to the development and progression of Alzheimer's disease.

Feedback explores an unexpected finding in Kent, while also looking into a Danish team's experiments with jellyfish and the psychology of waiting around

These images, taken from new book The Guests of Ants, reveal the behaviour of myrmecophiles, sophisticated organisms from beetles to flies that infiltrate ant colonies to take advantage of them

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A newly-identified virus has sickened people in China after spilling over from animals.

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Many dwarf galaxies torn up by the gravity of nearby objects seem not to have any dark matter, which doesn't line up with our understanding of the universe - but they may be explained by a controversial alternate model o...

Northern Virginia is home to many American Civil War battlefield sites as well as the largest concentration of data centres in the world. Plans for more data centres are now pitting preservationists and big technology co...

Physicists love to smash particles together and study the resulting chaos. Therein lies the discovery of new particles and strange physics, generated for tiny fractions of a second and recreating conditions often not see...

In an increasingly noisy world, neuroscientists are discovering exactly what kind of silence has the most dramatic impact on your mental health - from flotation tanks to guided meditation - and how much you really need

The 400-year-old wreck of a cargo ship from the Hanseatic period of trade in the Baltic Sea, complete with the barrels of lime it was carrying for the stone-building industry, has been found in a river on the northern co...

UK scientists have created an "eternal engine" to keep the next generation of atomic clock ticking.

Despite having no nerves or muscles, sea sponges slowly contract to squeeze sand and debris out of the openings they feed through

Wondering why are rest days important? Here's everything you need to know

Our modern understanding of the physical world is based on gauge theories: mathematical models from theoretical physics that describe the interactions between elementary particles (such as electrons or quarks) and explai...