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Coffee's mood-boosting effects aren't just down to...
A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are d...
The best new popular science books of May 2026
A guide to walking, a look at the world’s Google searches and a deep dive into the secrets of our DN...
Pressure from individual particles measured for th...
A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures an...
Dating over 50 is probably on the rise – but we kn...
Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally b...
Bronze Age Britons fashioned copper-mining tools o...
An analysis of 150 artefacts from a site in Wales shows that the ancient practice of making tools ou...
Red-light therapy does have health benefits but no...
Red-light therapy promises to treat everything from acne and hair loss to depression and chronic pai...
Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point i...
At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash wide...
Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami
When the slope of a mountain above Tracy Arm fjord, in Alaska, gave way on 10 August 2025, 64 millio...
Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still...
This 2013 book by an Indigenous botanist is a quietly urgent act of healing that forces Western scie...
Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Write...
Prize-winning young writer Hasset Kifle, 17, explores how the world of super-competitive running is ...
Extinct relative of koalas discovered in Western A...
Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, b...
The 50-year quest to create a quantum spin liquid ...
Creating quantum entanglement inside a solid material is tricky in the lab – but crystals buried in ...
Backlash builds over NHS plan to hide source code ...
NHS England is pulling its open-source software from the internet because of fears around computer-h...
Hantavirus: Where has the deadly cruise ship outbr...
Three people have died on board the cruise ship MV Hondius due to an outbreak of hantavirus, a rare ...
Woman in cancer remission without treatment in hig...
A biopsy of a woman's cancer seems to have triggered an immune response against the tumour, putting ...
The problem of cosmic inflation and how to solve i...
One of the best-performing models in cosmology is also one with the least physical rationale behind ...
Man destined to get Alzheimer’s saved by accidenta...
Doug Whitney has a genetic mutation that means he should have developed Alzheimer’s disease decades ...
Quantum computers simulated their biggest molecule...
Two quantum computers and two supercomputers teamed up to break the record on the biggest molecule y...
