It’s what some unlucky people dread more than almost anything: the bright flashes of light, seeing shimmering stars, losing vision,...
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Every now and then, Earth reminds us it’s capable of releasing some furious energy. Case in point: scientists have just...
Planning to attend an event but unsure of the COVID-19 risk, and if you should go at all? There’s an evidence-based...
Between the two halves of our brains is a gap filled with fluid and spanned only by the corpus callosum:...
If there’s one thing we know about SARS-CoV-2, is that its effects on people vary. A lot. As the pandemic...
With an estimated 300 active volcanoes on Earth, the challenge is how to monitor them all to send out early...
Space is a hostile place. We may have developed the technology to launch astronauts into orbit and get them home...
The mighty Arecibo telescope will be closed forever, the US National Science Foundation has decided. But the radio telescope which...
A new flu vaccine grown in plants has been put to the test in two large-scale clinical trials, a first...
Scientists have found a new way to regenerate damaged optic nerve cells taken from mice and grown in a dish....
Whether it’s Mozart or metal, listening to music can be an intense, even euphoric experience. Hearing your favourite tune might...
Among the many serious symptoms of COVID-19, the strange neurological effects experienced by many patients count as perhaps the most...