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The most robust evidence to date shows that people with a type of lung cancer lived longer if they received immunotherapy before 3pm ...

We are getting a clearer sense of where and how often Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred, and it turns out the behaviour ...

People with severe covid-19 infections are more than 4 times as likely to later be diagnosed with schizophrenia than people who have not been infected, though the risk of developing the condition is ...

Ants rely on scent to recognise their comrades, and when they are exposed to common air pollutants, other members of their ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including ...

Tantalising signs of past microbial life showed up on Mars this year, but to truly know whether they contain the answer to the biggest question in the universe, we will need to bring samples back to ...