Mars is often touted as the next planet people could inhabit, but the amount of radiation we would be exposed to would ...

The brain pathway that causes hairy mammals like mice and dogs to shake themselves dry appears to have more to do with ...

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The climate impact of flights taken by the super-rich rose sharply from 2019 to 2023, fuelling calls for a carbon tax on private aviation ...

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When tiny whirlpools called vortices form in a fluid, they can make loops that can then be knotted like a loop of string. But ...