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It's the fitness battle of exercise bike vs treadmill - which offers the most effective workout?

A high-tech look at crannogs, artificial islands build around the British Isles, reveals that prehistoric to post-medieval people partied on them.

How did Hurricane Ian remain so monstrous even after hitting Cuba?

Exceeding the World Health Organization's recommended air pollution exposure limit could substantially increase our risk of a first-time stroke

Obesity is, in part, determined by epigenetic development in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus. Findings suggest developmental epigenetics plays a significant role in both environmental and genetic influences on ob...

The COVID-19 pandemic may have altered the trajectory of personality in individuals, especially in younger people.

That may help form parental attachments

Most mass in everyday matter around us resides in protons and neutrons inside the atomic nucleus. However, the lifetime of a free neutron--one not bounded to a nucleus--is unstable, decaying by a process called beta deca...

Methane leaks from offshore oil rigs are normally hard to spot from space but a technique called "glint mode" now makes it possible

Photonic thermometers--which measure temperature using light--have been around in optical fiber form for decades. These devices, called fiber Bragg gratings, are embedded in commercially available fibers thinner than a h...

Adapted immune cells known as CAR T-cells could treat lungs infected by the fungus Aspergillus fumigatus in people with suppressed immune systems, a study in mice suggests

In a test to see if dogs can identify material that has been exposed to breath and sweat from stressed humans, they got it right around 94 per cent of the time

The covid-19 pandemic has changed our personalities - a study of more than 7000 US adults found that people are less open to new experiences and less conscientious than before the pandemic

A category 4 storm made landfall in Florida on Wednesday afternoon, displacing millions of residents and causing severe flooding and destruction

A team of researchers from CERN, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Staffordshire University have implemented a new algorithm for reconstructing particles at the Large Hadron Collider.

As anyone who has recently tried out an augmented reality headset knows, the technology is not yet ready to be part of our everyday lives. Researchers have been working to perfect high-performing augmented reality (AR) g...

The earlier language disorders in children are identified, the earlier help can be provided to insure fluid language acquisition.

The results for the amyloid-targeting drug, lecanemab, are a step forward, but it is unclear if this treatment will be truly helpful for those affected by Alzheimer's

Researchers reveal why a good night's sleep helps boost learning and memory.

Keystone species such as wild boar, eagles and lynx were managing the planet quite well for millions of years before humans got involved. We must cherish them, says Benedict Macdonald

I work on the dark matter problem knowing the questions I have may be answered long after I die. This is the life I signed up for: to think about interesting ideas and hopefully find out whether any of them are correct, ...

Saving unusual vegetable varieties from extinction is essential for protecting crop diversity, which is under threat from mechanisation, argues Adam Alexander in his richly detailed new book