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The benefits of running don't just stop at improved fitness, lots of advantages can be gained from putting one foot in front of the other.

Rising temperatures and deforestation are pushing tree-dwelling primates to spend more time on the ground in search of shade and water

Physicist Carlo Rovelli explains the strange principles of relational quantum mechanics - which says objects don't exist in their own right - and how it could unlock major progress in fundamental physics

Gene therapy enables a striking recovery of night vision in those who suffer from the childhood-onset blindness disorder Leber Congenital Amaurosis.

In children who experienced a left-hemisphere stroke within days of birth, brain plasticity allows the right hemisphere to acquire language abilities normally handled by the left hemisphere while maintaining its own lang...

Positive exposure to blue spaces, such as spending time playing at coastal locations or at lakes, during childhood is associated with a greater sense of well-being later in life.

A new meta-analysis focuses on what we know, and what we don't know about what's good and bad for our health.

Researchers identified microRNA-7 as a non-classic risk factor for hereditary obesity.

Individuals with a rare type of breast cancer called inflammatory breast cancer are at greater risk of their cancer spreading to the brain.

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Researchers shed light on why the life expectancy and aging gap is narrowing between men and women.

Unhackable communications devices, high-precision GPS and high-resolution medical imaging all have something in common. These technologies--some under development and some already on the market all rely on the non-intuit...

Brazil has cleared large parts of the Amazon rainforest for use as farmland, encouraging economic growth but causing environmental harm. Now researchers suggest that making intense use of already cleared land could avoid...

The world's greatest festival of science brought us entertainment and education - it also revealed the noises gorillas make when they eat, the surprising location of the hottest place in the solar system and much more

A donut is not a breakfast roll. Those are two very clearly distinguishable objects: One has a hole, the other does not. In mathematics, the two shapes are said to be topologically different--you cannot transform one int...

Heart disease is the number one cause of death among American adults. Conditions like obesity or diabetes increase a person's risk of developing heart disease, and blood tests or blood pressure measurements can provide a...

In recent decades, chips and electronic devices have become exponentially smaller and faster. Engineers have nearly reached the limits of traditional electronics and are now in the process of transitioning from electroni...

Quantum computers have the potential to outperform classical computers on several complex tasks, yet many challenges will need to be overcome before they reach their full potential. In the meantime, physicists and comput...

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There have been 120 suspected deaths from monkeypox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo this year, and the virulent Clade I virus may be to blame. There are fears it could follow the milder Clade II and go global

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A battery whose critical components can be harvested from seaweed could one day help replace lithium batteries, which rely on mining rare materials