A tiny sample of the Moon locked away for more than 50 years turns out to have been hiding an astronomical secret.

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Unlike the less common and more rapid 'wet' macular degeneration, the 'dry' form of the condition is a gradual loss of vision ...

The next global volcanic disaster is more likely to come from volcanoes that appear dormant and are barely monitored than ...

Progress in cutting the global toll of cancer remains painfully slow, but a new blood test has sparked unusual levels of hope ...

One fateful day about 4.5 billion years ago, a Mars-sized body called Theia collided with proto-Earth, turning both into a ...

Sleep is one of the essential physiological needs for human survival, alongside food, water, and air. But sleep is socially ...

A strange, never-before-seen glow in the halo of our galaxy may be the strongest dark-matter breadcrumb yet. A new analysis of 15 years' worth of data from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope reveals ...

It's not every day that biologists announce an entirely new branch of life, and this one has been hiding under their noses ...

Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the onset of Parkinson's disease.

Rising cases of chronic stress could be down to a mismatch between modern living and our own biology, according to a new ...