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Cannabis use may leave lasting fingerprints on the human body, a study of over 1,000 adults published in 2023 suggests – not ...

When metal alloys are processed during manufacturing, the atoms of the combined elements are mixed together at random, ...

When did you last find yourself with some spare time on your hands? A lack of free time, or 'temporal inequity', could be ...

A newly discovered protein from Earth's toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

To take a picture, the best digital cameras on the market open their shutter for around around one four-thousandths of a second.

A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was ...

In a rigorous, double-blinded controlled trial, 82 healthy adults over the age of 65 were randomly assigned to play either ...

Homing in on the junk-food pyramid to rank its most harmful members, researchers from Virginia Tech have discovered that ...

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking ...

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests.

Greenland is writhing as eons of ice accumulation and steady melting cause its foundations to change shape. This deformation, ...