I n 2018, Tahlequah the killer whale made headlines and broke hearts after she was spotted carrying the body of her dead calf ...

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Though you might think that compasses will always point towards the geographic north pole, the magnetic and geographic poles do not always align. As well as a few temporary reversals, the Earth's ...

With COVID in retreat (thanks to highly effective vaccines), the three infectious diseases causing public health officials ...

T he first patient in the UK has successfully received a double-lung transplant using a machine that is being nicknamed ...

A reactor that splits water to make hydrogen using sunlight and catalysts, without conversion to electricity in between, has ...

According to the archaeological record, humans started using the material somewhere between 500,000 to 330,000 years ago, ...

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Every episode of season 4 of The Big Questions podcast is now available, where we explore the biggest questions in science ...