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A secret society of French mathematicians has been revolutionising the field of mathematics under a pseudonym for nearly a century. Columnist Jacob Aron finds that this mythic collective provided ...

The World Health Organization sought to quell worldwide fears over the hantavirus outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius and ...

A comprehensive study exploring coffee’s physiological effects finds that some of its benefits are down to polyphenols and ...

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A device made using a tiny bead floating in a beam of light can measure extremely small pressures and could help find a ...

At least 15 per cent of the Amazon has already been lost, and further destruction could unleash widespread rainforest dieback ...

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Research into dating has until now almost exclusively focused on younger people, but we’re finally beginning to investigate ...

Fossils reveal that there were at least two kinds of koala when humans first arrived in Australia, but one died out about ...