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New laws in the UK, Australia and France were brought in during 2025 with the aim of protecting children from harmful content online, but experts remain divided on whether they will achieve this goal ...

It's easy to assume that the most talented adults among us were once gifted children, but it turns out that talent during childhood is no guide to later success ...

Excavations of sewer drains at a Roman fort in northern England have revealed the presence of several parasites that can cause debilitating illness in humans ...

A pair of nascent planets have been caught smashing together around the nearby star Fomalhaut, and in doing so have solved the puzzle of its famous 'planet'

The National Center for Atmospheric Research has played a leading role in providing data, modelling and supercomputing to researchers around the world - but the Trump administration is set to shut it down ...

Our cells follow 24-hour circadian rhythms that regulate our blood sugar levels and are heavily influenced by light exposure. Scientists have harnessed this to show that just sitting by a window improves blood sugar control in people with type 2 ...

A distant world with carbon in its atmosphere and extraordinarily high temperatures is unlike any other planet we've seen, and it's unclear how it could have formed ...

The largest study so far into the genetics of chronic fatigue syndrome, or myalgic encephalomyelitis, has implicated 259 genes - six times more than those identified just four months ago ...

Our understanding of the true nature of the cosmos relies on measurements of its expansion, but cosmologists have been arguing back and forth about it for more than 100 years ...

Satellites in orbit would begin to collide in a matter of days if they lost manoeuvrability during a solar storm or other outage ...