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There is a growing trend to see our relationship with nature as a spiritual thing. This is a mistake, argues Richard Smyth ...

After finding success with last year's New Year's resolution, health reporter Grace Wade has grand plans for 2026 - and the science to back them up ...

While US President Donald Trump and his administration are making false and debunked claims about the causes of autism, real research is improving our understanding of the condition ...

You might feel like the days and weeks are slipping by. Here is how one psychologist says you can shift your experience of time ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one young star should help us understand how such systems form ...

The jawbones and vertebrae of a hominin that lived 773,000 years ago have been found in North Africa and could represent a common ancestor of Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans ...

AI models such as ChatGPT and Gemini fail to give adequate advice for 60 per cent of queries relating to women's health in a test created by medical professionals ...

Immune cells are most commonly engineered to kill cancers, but now, scientists have shown the technique makes the gut lining of older mice resemble that of younger mice, raising hopes that the same approach could work in people ...

A 1.78-million-year-old partial elephant skeleton found in Tanzania associated with stone tools may represent the oldest known evidence of butchery of the giant herbivores ...

The earliest acoustic vibrations in the cosmos weren't exactly sound - they travelled at half the speed of light and there was nobody around to hear them anyway. But Jim Baggott says from the first moments, the universe was singing ...