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Now is the right time to bring that old phone in your drawer to a collection point

From tasting chili peppers to modeling climate dynamics, we’re looking at the discoveries recognised this year

Small changes to canteen menus resulted in a significant decrease in consumed calories...

Minor 'nudges' in stores can lead to big increases in healthy purchases and drops in sales of sweets.

A novel type of fully implantable temporary pacemaker has been developed that naturally absorbs into the body

The rodents are not only taking a toll on the landscape, but also the wellbeing of farming communities...

As glaciers move to the ocean they act as "natural bulldozers", crushing the underlying rock and releasing...

Teen tyrannosaurs may have stepped in to fill a void previously held by other meat-eating dinosaur species...

There was a mysterious global shark extinction about 19 million years ago and sharks never bounced back

The rise of slime off Turkey is a dangerous eyesore. But it's not all doom and gloop: this can be reversed

Rivers and underground water sources don't recover from drought...

Sharks gather map-like information from Earth's magnetic field

Mining without the digging...

A molecule that controls immune cells might help to stop sepsis

If cats eat and play, mice live to see another day...

A drug that combats a rare human genetic disease is lethal to blood-sucking insects...

Trapped in amber for millions of years, this beetle has been scientifically very enlightening...

These Japanese millipedes join cicadas as the only other arthropods with a multi-year life cycle...

Does the announcement from Pfizer this week mark the beginning of the end of our socially-distanced existence...

Scientists build an artificial liver device that sustains liver function and stimulates organ repair...

Healthcare workers are carrying COVID-19 without realising they’re infected, a new study shows...

Coughs and sneezes traditionally spread diseases, and coronavirus particles are shed into sewage...

Loss of smell and taste sense has been reported by people later diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2. Now we know why...

Covid-19 mortality rates are apparently much lower in some parts of the world. Might the TB jab you had as a teenager...