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Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...

Spaceflight has a gender problem. Depending on how you count, 700-ish people have been to space, but only about 100 of them ...

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Exercise seems to help prevent cancer and reduce the growth of tumours, and that protective effect may be due to the way ...

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Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain ...

A new project backed by film-maker Sir Peter Jackson aims to bring the extinct South Island giant moa back to life in less than eight years. The South Island giant moa stood up to 3.6 metres tall, ...

The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming ...

Putting aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect sunlight could prevent the shutdown of key ocean currents, but only if it is ...