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Three studies add to evidence that jabs could be part of cancer-fighting toolkit to cut risk of developing or dying from disease ...

Exclusive: First shipwrecks found in Nassau harbour on New Providence, once the hideout of Blackbeard and Calico Jack ...

Kevin Minto's discovery near Ilminster, showing goddess Victoria, has been acquired with coin hoard for £78,000 ...

John McFall prepares for mission to Haven-1 space station after UK Space Agency signs deal with US startup Vast ...

The long read: For tens of thousands of years, these Palaeolithic artworks were unseen. When they were rediscovered, onlookers marvelled at their vivid beauty. One of the world's leading experts took me up close ...

Ian Sample talks to Prof Maiken Nedergaard about her groundbreaking work on the brain's waste-disposal system and how subsequent research is building a picture of sleep as anything but a quiet, inactive state ...

Company asks US government to release army of sterile male mosquitoes to lower number of illness-spreading bugs ...

Late physicist turned issue of when to stop searching for a better place to eat into mathematical problem ...

Remains of Los Alamos employee Melissa Casias found alongside handgun in case that stirred online speculation ...

It's natural to focus on breakthroughs, but there are many challenges in Britain and around the world. There is no magic bullet, but there's room for optimism, says Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh ...