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They can both make a big difference to your home, but when it comes to a dehumidifier vs air purifier, which best suits your needs?

When it comes to comfort and fit, you'll struggle to beat the Adidas FWD-02 Sport headphones

CT scans of the child's mummy show that the toddler, a descendant of an Austrian count, died from a vitamin D deficiency due to lack of sunlight.

From being the celestial embodiment of warrior gods to housing canal-digging aliens, Mars has uniquely endured in the public consciousness. Even today, the Red Planet still spells adventure, says Stuart Clark

A new season of the BBC Earth Podcast kicks off with Safari, an episode that encourages us to engage with nature, whether it is in the Scottish rainforests or just the scruffy green patch outside your office

The wildfire that swept across Europe this summer resonates through Quentin Reynaud's The Blaze, a tense, subtly crafted eco-thriller in which a father and son struggle to escape from a local outbreak

An assessment of 35 key factors in Earth's climate system, such as greenhouse gas concentrations and ocean temperatures, finds that many are "flashing red"

A neuroimaging study reveals distinctive changes in white matter and other brain tissue physiology in Lyme disease patients during the post-treatment phase. The study also found unusual activity in the frontal lobe, a br...

James Webb's legacy was to stand for a status quo where queer Black people like me could never have a home in the NASA community. Naming the incredible new telescope after him has come to represent the contradictions of ...

The world's largest penguins have joined the threatened species list.

Neutron stars cool down by emitting neutrinos. A mathematical model now suggests the neutrinos come out in focused beams rather than a uniform emission

Aspherical components in optical systems can increase the free design variables without introducing new aberrations. That brings improved imaging quality and reduced size and weight. Aspheric components are widely used i...

New research suggests that signs of ancient Martian life could be out there - or rather, hidden just beneath the Martian surface, safe from harmful radiation.

Consuming the bacterium Hafnia alvei twice a day for three months led to better weight loss success among a group of overweight people following a calorie-control diet

For the first time, physicists have observed novel quantum effects in a topological insulator at room temperature. This breakthrough, published as the cover article of the October issue of Nature Materials, came when Pri...

A reptile named Bellairsia gracilis has been identified as an early member of the squamate group that lived around 167 million years ago

Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide reached record-high concentrations in the atmosphere in 2021, including the largest recorded increase in methane

The war in Ukraine has encouraged a rush to exploit more fossil fuels, but there are still positive signs of climate action ahead of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt

The war in Ukraine has encouraged a rush to exploit more fossil fuels, but there are still positive signs of climate action ahead of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt

Quantum computers have attracted considerable interest of late for their potential to crack problems in a few hours where they might take the age of the universe (i.e., tens of billions of years) on the best supercompute...

It is a further step towards circular manufacturing

What does cardio do to your body? We asked a doctor to explain its many benefits