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Milburn set to take senior health department role and says crisis is 'million times worse' than when he was in office

The world is alone, and America will not come to save it, an expert writes

New application of Raman spectroscopy imaging allows scientists to probe the chemical composition of sailors lost at sea over 500 years ago.

In the search for less energy-hungry artificial intelligence, some scientists are exploring living computers

Hundreds of thousands more breeding pairs of seabirds could return to remote island archipelagos if invasive rats were removed and native vegetation restored, a new paper finds.

Scientists were able to restore a coral reef in Indonesia in just four years by using specially made steel frames covered with sand.

It won't help with heat-driven bleaching, but other human damage can be fixed.

RIO DE JANEIRO — By this time of the year, rain should be drenching large swaths of the Amazon rainforest. Instead, a punishing drought has kept the rains at...

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: OpenAI this week quietly deleted language expressly prohibiting the use of its technology for military purposes from its usage policy, which seeks to dictate how powerful and immensely popular tools like ChatGPT can be used. Up until January 10...

Guano? Gua-yes.

Lancaster University scientists discover drug combos for snakebites, potentially revolutionizing treatment and mitigating venom-induced damage, offering hope for victims globally.

". . . PFAS are a problem that is not going away anytime soon"

An experiment has finally revealed how it might feel to touch a quantum superfluid.

The extinction crisis is slamming the Amazon, but it's so poorly understood, we don't know what's being lost

An escarpment around Olympus Mons appears similar to those around volcanic islands on Earth.

New research from Lancaster University presents an "innovative approach" to investigating the heat conductivity of novel two-dimensional materials. The work paves the way for creating efficient waste heat scavengers that generate cheap electricity, new compact fridges, and advanced optical and microwave sensors and cameras.

Europe's Euclid telescope is heading to space to prove whether hypothetical dark energy and dark matter really exist. The mission's findings may rewrite...

New research by the Work Foundation at Lancaster University reveals 1.3 million disabled workers are trapped in severely insecure work in the U.K.—and 430,000 say they want to work more hours.

The dangers of people turning to unofficial lenders due to the cost of living are revealed in new research undertaken by Lancaster University and have been released in a special session in the House of Commons.

The UK government's Upskill in Cyber programme is reporting great success just a month after launch, with almost half of applicants women