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Scientists looked at the effects of obesity and exercise on 334,161 European men and women whose progress was followed for 12 years. They found that people who engaged in moderate […]

New discovery is likely to be a rocky world in the ‘Goldilocks’ zone of its parent star where the temperature is just right for liquid water to flow

Please, journalists, get a clue before you write about science

The creature standing rather unsteadily in a zoology museum in London is among the rarest in the world, and frankly she’s not looking her best. The creature standing rather unsteadily […]

‘The curve that sets everything straight” was how comedian Phyllis Diller once described the smile. And it’s true that there’s something charming, trustworthy and disarming about a smile – but […]

Fossil from tiny plant eater, Aquilops americanus, suggests horned dinosaurs originated in Asia

Early note shows delight at birth of his daughter while later letters show fame was beginning to be a trial

For more than a decade scientists have been at a loss to explain why there are fewer stars than they predicted

Head direction cells in the bat hippocampus encode three-dimensional representations of space