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Childhood obesity rates have surpassed those of undernutrition for the first time, suggesting efforts to combat malnutrition ...

A study of festivalgoers suggests that drinking beer and sharing a bed makes you more attractive to mosquitoes ...

Jupiter is a gas giant and doesn’t have a solid outer surface like Earth. But astronomers can still assess its shape by ...

An exceptionally loud collision between two black holes has been detected by the LIGO gravitational wave observatory, ...

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now ...

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

Scientists have mapped the activity that takes place across a mouse's entire brain as it decides how to complete a task - and ...

Ancient remains from a cave in Serbia show that Neanderthals were hunting mountain goats 300,000 years ago, adding to ...

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As breakthrough medications are beginning to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, innovations such as virtual reality ...