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If you're feeling like the news is particularly bad at the moment, you're not alone.

The Neanderthals are our closest extinct relatives, and they continue to fascinate as we peer back through tens of thousands of years of history.

AI chatbots have already become embedded into some people's lives, but how many really know how they work? Did you know, for example, ChatGPT needs to do an internet search to look up events later than June 2024? Some of the most surprising ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not likely.

The idea of evolution backtracking isn't a completely new idea, but catching it in action isn't an everyday experience.

Stores of glucose in the brain could play a much more significant role in the pathological degeneration of neurons than scientists realized, opening the way to new treatments for conditions like Alzheimer's disease.

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while rivers once ...

Lung cancer cases are on the rise in non-smokers around the world, and air pollution could be an insidious, contributing factor.

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an urgent warning about tianeptine - a substance marketed as a dietary supplement but known on the street as "gas station heroin".

A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously thought.