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In a small study, restricting calories led to greater weight loss among people with a biological age younger than their ...

Humans have been observing solar eclipses for millennia – carving, painting, sketching and finally photographing as the moon ...

When it comes to supplements to stave off the effects of ageing, columnist Graham Lawton admits he is a hardened sceptic. But ...

When researchers found evidence of a black hole flying out of its galaxy, nobody knew how that could happen. Now we have an ...

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, ...

Patricia Skelton, an astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, sheds some light on the scientific rigour of her ...

We tend to think of the brain as being made up of highly specialised cells, but a study in mice suggests that most neurons ...

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recipients ...

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the ...

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps as a ...

An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy to ...