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To celebrate its third year of operations, the powerful space telescope has peered into the heart of an empyrean essence of ...

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The blue shark ( Prionace glauca) might be more than its name. Scientists investigating the sleek ocean predator's skin ...

The effects of climate change could awaken hundreds of volcanoes worldwide – which in turn could worsen the effects of ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

Canned salmon are the unlikely heroes of an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum – preserving decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

The second half of July and the early days of August are the perfect time to get outside and look at the night sky.

We're constantly told to "eat healthy" – but what does that actually mean? Even doctors sometimes struggle to offer clear, ...

Motes of plastic less than a micrometer across could outnumber larger fragments and particles floating through the oceans to a shocking extent, a new study has discovered.

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There's still so much we don't know about Alzheimer's disease, but the link between poor sleep and worsening disease is one ...