A survey of 100 commercial foods for dogs and cats revealed that PFAS chemicals appear in numerous brands and types, with fish-based products among those with the highest levels ...

We’ve been missing an important contributor to ageing, says columnist Graham Lawton. Ultra-processed foods are known to be ...

New insights into the causes of migraine is prompting a fresh look at a drug target that was sidelined 25 years ago ...

Colliding galaxies can create a beam of focused microwave radiation known as a maser, and astronomers have discovered the brightest one ever seen ...

Spinosaurs have sometimes been portrayed as swimmers or divers, but a new species of these dinosaurs bolsters the idea that they were more like gigantic herons ...

After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...

The production of medicines is a high-stakes industry where efficiency and environmental impact often collide. Given that the pharmaceutical industry is one of society’s biggest polluters, solving ...

International collaboration, supported by Horizon Europe Funding, is the crucial ingredient in reducing the environmental footprint of medicines, say researchers ...

Symbiotic bacteria living inside insect cells have lost much of their DNA over hundreds of millions of years, much like the ancient microbes that evolved into mitochondria ...

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