Attempts to prevent Australian children from accessing social media are likely to fail, and could do more harm than good ...

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The mega-coral measures 34 metres by 32 metres – making it larger than a blue whale – and it is thought to be three centuries ...

Water levels in the Caspian Sea are set to fall dramatically as the climate gets hotter, posing a major threat to economic ...

It has been 50 years since archaeologists discovered Lucy, perhaps the most famous ancient hominin ever found. But the ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

Letting AI models communicate with each other in their internal mathematical language, rather than translating back and forth ...

Popular semaglutide-based drugs used for weight loss may reduce chronic and acute pain, which could make them a promising ...

Rates of near-sightedness are rising all over the world. But solutions to the epidemic are coming into focus and could be ...

Air pollution has been linked to eczema before, and now a study of more than 280,000 people has strengthened the association ...

A classic study found that people can fail to notice a gorilla when they are focusing on something else, but new experiments ...

A genetic flaw dooms half of all crested newts to die before they hatch – now we know how this baffling evolutionary quirk ...