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A cruel consequence of advanced cancer is the profound apathy many patients experience as they lose interest in ...

Analysis of a perfect jawbone found in Taiwan has given us new clues to the Denisovans, an enigmatic people with whom our ...

Most of us would probably think of smoking or air pollution when it comes to lung cancer risk, but researchers have ...

New mothers who start hormonal contraception after giving birth may face a slightly increased risk of depression in the ...

Scientists trying to discover the elusive mass of neutrinos, tiny "ghost particles" that could solve some of the universe's ...

Additives that are commonly found in ultra-processed foods could be increasing the risk of type 2 diabetes when mixed ...

New observations have revealed that we were wrong about the length of a day on Uranus. According to the most precise ...

The recent paper's case for green oceans in the Archaean eon starts with an observation: waters around the Japanese volcanic ...

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A container of oil and water separated by a thin skin of magnetized particles has intrigued a team of chemical engineers by ...