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It is allergy season once again. If you are one of the 81 million Americans with hay fever, spring is a...

Giant whales have little cancer relative to their body size. It's a biological mismatch known as Peto's paradox, which describes...

The US government could run out of money as early as next week if lawmakers in Washington DC fail to...

Menopause may be entering public consciousness (although, bewilderingly, it’s not a mandatory part of the curriculum in 41 percent of UK...

A pair of implants forming a digital bridge between the brain and the spinal cord has enabled a 'test pilot'...

The water shortage in the Colorado River basin threatens 40 million people and five million acres of farmland from Mexico...

In June a four-person crew will enter a hangar at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and spend one...

'Flesh-eating' bacteria have been found thriving on seaweed blooms and plastic pollution in the open Caribbean Ocean, and researchers worry...

In an attempt to solve two environmental problems at once, researchers at the University of Kitakyushu in Japan have found...

In a future when gene therapy can tweak a person’s genome precisely enough to cure them of severe disease, treating earlier...