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As the planet gets hotter and its reservoirs shrink and its glaciers melt, people have increasingly drilled into a largely ungoverned, invisible cache of fresh water:…

Almost 40% of women going through perimenopause experience moderate to severe hot flushes and night sweats but have no treatment options, new research has found.The study,…

Keeping the classroom window closed is not the answer to reduce the amount of pollution coming into schools, a recent study has found.A project called SAMHE…

‘Arsenic Life’ Microbe Study Retracted after 15 Years of ControversyA controversial arsenic microbe study unveiled 15 years ago has been retracted. The study’s authors are crying…

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would…

The Pandemic Aged Everyone’s Brain—Even in Healthy PeopleA study of nearly 1,000 people showed that brain aging was not linked to infection statusBy Gemma Conroy &…

Google’s AI Overviews, which are AI-generated summaries that appear at the top of search results for certain types of queries, are less likely to lead to…

Optimists Are Alike, but Pessimists Are Unique, Brain Scan Study SuggestsOptimists have similar patterns of brain activation when they think about the future—but pessimists are all…

Metal bottle caps can be a significant source of microplastic contamination in beverages, a new peer-reviewed study by France’s food safety agency finds.Researchers compared microplastic levels…

Almost half of pregnant black women raised concerns to healthcare professionals during labour, with half saying that their concerns were also not properly addressed, according to…