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What causes schizophrenia? This severe mental illness, which affects over 20 million people worldwide and is characterised by ...

One of the most spectacular galaxies in Earth's sky is the subject of a new image release to help celebrate 35 years of ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), or 'forever chemicals', have spread almost everywhere on Earth, and are ...

Stimulating either of a pair of crucial nerves that carry messages from the brain to several major organs could be an ...

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily.

Weather on Jupiter may have some surprising similarities to Earth phenomena, but some things it does defy easy explanation.

As the global population ages, more of us face frightening cognitive decline, personally or in our loved ones.

A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding.

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