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Dense breast tissue can make tumours hard to spot on mammogram scans, but adding another step to this screening programme could help identify such cas

About half of people with generalised anxiety disorder don’t respond to common treatments with antidepressants – but psychedelics may offer relief

There are a range of competing views on whether smartphones and social media are harmful to adolescents, and an attempt to settle the debate has inste

Astronomers have struggled to explain why a long and thin cloud forms above Mars’s Arsia Mons volcano each year, until now

Knee osteoarthritis is often treated via non-drug therapies, and now we have an idea of which ones work best

Scientists have created an antivenom that has shown promise against some of the world’s deadliest snakes after collecting antibodies from a hyperimmun

Maintaining good overall health is key to living a long life, but we may want to particularly focus on the state of our brain and immune system

The bones were shaped by people using stone tools before they were fossilised, adding new evidence for humans’ arrival in the Americas before the end

An analysis of the provenance of the Matarrubilla stone, a large megalith at Valencina in Spain, indicates that the monument’s builders must have had

Clouds are made up of many tiny drops of liquid water suspended at temperatures below freezing, before they are penetrated by ice. Understanding this