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Research
Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs
When black holes and other enormously massive, dense objects whirl around one another,...
People with obsessive-compulsive disorder have an imbalance of brain chemicals – our discovery could mean a treatment breakthrough
People often jokingly say they’ve “got a bit of OCD” (obsessive-compulsive disorder)...
Intermittent fasting and calorie counting about equal for weight loss – new study
The traditional approach to weight loss is to count calories and try to reduce the...
How a 400 million year old fossil changes our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature
If your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem,...
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and habitable than Earth itself and astronomers are discovering more of the billions they think are out there
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system...
The world’s fish are shrinking as the climate warms. We’re trying to figure out why
Fish are the most diverse group of vertebrates, ranging from tiny gobies and zebrafish...
Forensic evidence suggests Paleo-Americans hunted mastodons, mammoths and other megafauna in eastern North America 13,000 years ago
The earliest people who lived in North America shared the landscape with huge animals
Major new research claims smaller-brained Homo naledi made rock art and buried the dead. But the evidence is lacking
On September 13 2013, speleologists Rick Hunter and Steven Tucker descended deep...
ADHD: inattention and hyperactivity have been the focus of research – but emotional problems may be the missing link
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common mental...
While humans were in strict lockdown, wild mammals roamed further – new research
At one point in 2020, 4.4 billion people – more than half of the world’s population...
Mounting research documents the harmful effects of social media use on mental health, including body image and development of eating disorders
Media influences and conventional beauty standards have long plagued society
Space colonies: how artificial photosynthesis may be key to sustained life beyond Earth
Life on Earth owes its existence to photosynthesis – a process which is 2.3 billion...
Have we got the brain all wrong? A new study shows its shape is more important than its wiring
The human brain is made up of around 86 billion neurons, linked by trillions of...
Pandemic babies’ developmental milestones: Not as bad as we feared, but not as good as before
The COVID-19 pandemic created conditions that threatened children’s healthy development
A little-understood sleep disorder affects millions and has clear links to dementia – 4 questions answered
A little-known and poorly understood sleep disorder that occurs during the rapid...
Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa
Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years...