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The IceCube neutrino detector has allowed researchers to resolve a debate about what types of particles make up ...

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A drop in shipping emissions has caused a surge in warming at the Great Barrier Reef, fuelling calls for drastic actions such ...

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

Previous estimates have suggested that more than half of people who stop taking antidepressants experience withdrawal ...

Interest in the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin skyrocketed during the covid-19 pandemic, but evidence for many of its ...

Urban trees lining streets fare better in dry spells than those in parks – now it seems that leaky water pipes are the reason ...