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A review of the Mental Health First Aid programme, which trains members of the public to support people with conditions like depression, has found no good evidence of it actually improving mental health

An immune-related gene variant has been tied to a reduced risk of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's across a huge, diverse population of people.

Renewable energy development is transforming the US countryside. It could be a chance to restore the iconic prairies if rural opposition can be overcome

Scientists are calling the Virgin Galactic mission that carried the bones of Australopithecus sediba and Homo naledi to the edge of space a major ethical breach.

Scientists have developed a nuclear fuel source no larger than a seed, which NASA will test for use in future moon missions.

Forget sperm meets egg. Using human stem cells, scientists have created human embryo-like structures inside petri dishes. These lab-grown blobs develop multiple structures that mimic a human embryo after implantation int...

Apple's desktop line-up gets some love, and it's students that will win out with the Mac Mini M2 and Mac Mini M2 Pro.

Researchers and governments are finally battling back against the deluge of false information online, just as artificial intelligence threatens to supercharge the problem

Nicotine vapes and two drugs called varenicline and cytisine were found to be the stop-smoking aids most likely to help people quit.

The evolutionary leap that allowed plants to live on land 400 million years ago upended Earth in a way unseen since the Great Oxidation Event over 1.5 billion years earlier.

In the past five years, there have been almost 100 cases of the UK's Environment Agency deploying emergency oxygen to stop fish in English rivers from dying

Quantum spin liquids are difficult to explain and even harder to understand.

Researchers have discovered human bones and animal remains dating to around 7,000 years ago in Arabian stone structures known as mustatils.

Researchers at the University of Stuttgart have demonstrated that a key ingredient for many quantum computation and communication schemes can be performed with an efficiency that exceeds the commonly assumed upper theore...

The comet Nishimura, which was only discovered in August, will soon be slingshotted around the sun and back out toward the edge of the solar system where it will remain for centuries.

To understand why scientists are excited about detecting a new background, just look to the history of studies of the CMB.

Comet Nishimura, which was discovered just a month ago, is about to make its closest approach to the sun, giving people in the northern hemisphere a great chance of a sighting

Archaeologists analyzed a number of artifacts from a pilgrimage camp in Israel that they think "sorcerers" used for magical purposes.

A modern reinvention of a legendary model, the OM System OM-1 is the best Micro Four Thirds camera ever made -- and one of the best cameras, period.

If video is important to you, look no further than the Panasonic Lumix S5 IIX -- which is arguably Panasonic's greatest camera ever.

Henon bamboo flowers only once every 120 years then vanishes for years, and researchers have no idea how it regenerates.

Toilets that collect health data could be hacked to reveal extremely sensitive information and should be regulated as medical devices, say security experts