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Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...

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The loss of snow cover in temperate forests is set to slow their growth and reduce their ability to remove carbon from the ...

Computers can help ensure that mathematical proofs are correct, but translating traditional maths into a machine-readable ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

Suddenly feeling old? Evidence now suggests that rather than a long, steady decline, we dramatically age around three ...

Drugs and explosive chemicals are difficult to detect, but a device more sensitive than a dog’s nose can pick up their traces ...

The best way to assess the effects of alcohol would be to randomly assign people to drink it or not in childhood and then monitor their health and drinking over the rest of their lives. Since such ...

Taking a daily omega-3 supplement appears to slow down the rate of biological ageing by three months – and even more so if you also take vitamin D and exercise ...

We know that modern humans took one of two routes to first reach Australia, and now an ancient chunk of plant resin has tipped the evidence towards the northern option ...

From David Attenborough to Hannah Fry via Bryan Johnson, our TV columnist Bethan Ackerley selects her favourite science and ...