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To celebrate its third year of operations, the powerful space telescope has peered into the heart of an empyrean essence of ...

Want to remember things better as you get older? The secret might be surprisingly simple: focus on feeling good.

During a recent lightning storm, a couple from Canada caught a rare weather mystery on camera. Right from their porch, Ed and Melinda Pardy watched as a lightning bolt struck the land less than a ...

The blue shark ( Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin ...

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum – preserving decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to ...

The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

We're constantly told to "eat healthy" – but what does that actually mean? Even doctors sometimes struggle to offer clear, ...

There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

Your days of being frustrated by a sluggish smartphone or laptop could be coming to an end: scientists have discovered a new ...