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The story of these glass beads begins with explosive volcanic activity that would have been spectacular to witness. The beads ...

Humpback whales caught blowing giant bubble rings underwater may have been attempting some kind of communication with their ...

Weight-loss drugs that mimic the effect of regulatory hormones on appetite and energy balance often come with a few rather ...

As a chunk of ice ages, however, it becomes more compressed, pushing out air, allowing more light to penetrate, and becoming ...

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart. But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable ...

Every single human on this planet is as distinct as a snowflake; a combination of traits and genes and microbes that, as far as we can tell, is not replicated exactly in any other single human.

Softgel capsules – the smooth, easy-to-swallow form of many medications and supplements – are increasingly popular for delivering everything from vitamins to omega-3s.

Archaeologists have discovered what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 2.5 kilometres underwater off southern France, the deepest such find in its section of the ...

A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth ...

When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it's easy to conclude that parents who don't vaccinate their children are ...

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.