The US government’s proposal for a vast health database to study autism could improve our understanding of the condition – ...

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Men who were embodying female avatars via virtual reality felt anger and disgust when catcalled, which could change the ...

An alternative periodic table of elements focusing on highly charged ions reveals new science that could support the quest ...

Laboratory measurements of crushed quartz suggest earthquakes generate huge volumes of hydrogen underground, a potential ...

Neutrinos have always been hard to explain – and now the detection of one so energetic it shouldn't exist may help illuminate the strangest corners of the cosmos ...

An open-air site in Austria occupied by humans during the coldest part of the last glacial period may have been dedicated to hunting reindeer for pelts, showing how people adapted to extreme ...

Water falls on Earth every day as rain, and now scientists seem to have found a way of using it to create renewable ...

A fossilised 113-million-year-old hell ant from Brazil adds to the evidence that the first ants evolved in the southern ...

Most supplements that claim to help your brain have never been thoroughly tested, but one has convinced even the most ...

A carnivorous caterpillar species camouflages itself with dead insects so it can live safely alongside spiders, stalking ...

Exposing children with peanut allergy to proteins from the legume is an approved treatment to reduce the risk of allergic ...