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Two of Earth's largest ice sheets have lost more than 12 trillion US tons of ice in just 47 years, according to a major report authored by 58 scientists from institutions around the world.

In a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers document a case of complete regression of ...

Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a ...

We know, broadly speaking, that staying active keeps us healthy, and getting in a certain amount of steps each day is a ...

Woolly mammoths – elephant-sized relatives of modern elephants wrapped in thick fur – once roamed the frozen grasslands of ...

Of all recorded weather disasters, hurricanes cause the most catastrophic amounts of personal loss and infrastructure damage ...

Copper is a much sought (and much stolen) metal because it powers the proliferation of data centers, electric vehicles, and ...

The progressive bone-weakening disease is estimated to affect as many as 500 million people worldwide, triggering up to 37 ...

We've known for decades that multiple sclerosis (MS) and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) are linked, and experts think it's probably ...

Stick insects are notoriously difficult to spot, and it's not just because they're camouflaged. Scientists in Australia have just discovered two entirely new species of stick insect in areas of the ...

A German WW1 submarine known as SM UC-30 was returning home in April 1917 when it hit a British mine and sank.