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We have long suspected that music has restorative qualities, but Daniel Levitin is now providing rigorous evidence that it ...

A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has passed away from the ...

Male flies have been genetically engineered to produce poisonous proteins in their seminal fluid, a technique that could be ...

The tale of Fermat's last theorem took hundreds of years and included tantalising twists, disappointing errors and a ...

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From carbon emissions to the share price of videoconferencing firm Zoom, these graphs tell the story of how the covid-19 ...

Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations in drinking water ...

Smartphones, electric vehicles and wind turbines rely on environmentally destructive rare earth mining operations. Harnessing ...

A velvet ant sting is like “hot oil spilling over your hand” – now, scientists have identified molecules in its venom that ...