Scientists are hard at work trying to assess the scale of our microplastic pollution problem and the likely health impacts.

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The new guidelines also emphasize the fact that diet can have a major impact on blood pressure. They recommend that all adults – with or without hypertension – consume less than 2,300 milligrams of ...

Research suggests a surprising link between blood type and stroke risk, with people carrying one specific group A blood type ...

More than half of the world's pet cats are overweight, experts estimate, and soon, these chubby felines may be treated with a ...

From August 2026, you'll be able to sprinkle a little science into your tabletop competition with the worldwide delivery of ...

Growing mistrust of tap water has helped turn bottled water into a global staple, even in countries where public supplies are ...

A small group of patients with an otherwise incurable form of T‑cell leukaemia have seen their cancer driven into remission ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's orbit and axial tilt.

A construction site dating back nearly 2,000 years to the putative demise of Pompeii in 79 CE has revealed new evidence for ...

The MAVEN spacecraft – Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution – abruptly lost contact with Earth on 6 December 2025 while passing behind the red planet in the normal course of its orbit. When MAVEN re ...

A sperm donor, who is an asymptomatic carrier of a genetic mutation increasing the risk of cancer, was used to conceive ...