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Only one human illness has been entirely eradicated: smallpox. Could guinea worm be the second? Ian Sample hears from Madeleine Finlay and David Molyneux ...

The state was unusually dry for much of 2025, but the intensity of the drought has ratcheted up since January 2026.

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once believed. Dating back over 540 million years, the .. ...

Earth may have won a cosmic chemistry lottery. Researchers found that during the planet's earliest formation, oxygen had to be in an extremely narrow "Goldilocks zone" for two life-essential elements, phosphorus and nitrogen, to stay where life could ...

The Artemis II crew go further than any humans before in Nasa's first crewed mission to the Moon in over 50 years.

A strange "forbidden" planet spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope is turning planetary science on its head. TOI-5205 b, a Jupiter-sized world orbiting a small, cool star, has an atmosphere surprisingly poor in heavy elements--even less enriched ...

The Artemis II mission has officially carried humans farther from Earth than ever before.

First it was protein, now it's fiber: the "maxxing" mindset has permeated social media, as wellness influencers insist that loading up on certain nutrients is the key to vitality and a life-changing gut glow-up.

Once contact was regained, astronaut Christina Koch said: "It is so great to hear from Earth again."