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Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the ...

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A new model of Alzheimer's disease has been proposed, which could speed up efforts to understand and cure the complex ...

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Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island ...

The event is designated EP240408a, as it was first detected by the Einstein Probe, an X-ray space telescope, on 8 April 2024. At a glance, it appeared to be a run-of-the-mill gamma ray burst, which ...

We've yet to see a falling piece of space debris strike an airplane, but if it happens, the consequences would almost ...

If you look up at the sky on a clear day, you might notice little cobweb-like structures drifting across your field of vision ...

Around a galaxy just 590 million light-years away, astronomers have discovered a stunning example of one of the rarest ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been giving us a fabulous new view on the Universe since its launch.