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When adults pretended to be in pain, children as young as 9 months old comforted them, pushing back the earliest age when ...

The Tropical Forests Forever Facility, an initiative spearheaded by Brazil, would raise money from investments and pay ...

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic ...

Women were historically excluded from health studies on the grounds that hormone fluctuations introduced "noise" into the ...

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Despite setting a global temperature record, 2023 might have been even hotter were it not for the cooling effect of smoke ...

An analysis of compounds in chilli peppers has revealed chemicals that seem to negate their heat-giving capsaicinoids. This ...

Extreme weather events are the most dramatic consequence of climate change, but there are many smaller ways it disturbs our ...

A newly described poison dart frog, which is about the size of a thumbnail, has been found in the forests of the Juruá river ...

Several recent experiments showcase a sharp increase in the number of quantum bits that can be entangled, echoing Moore’s law ...