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For the first time, researchers have linked the amount of silver being buried in marine sediments to human-made climate change.

Do aliens sleep? You may take sleep for granted, but research suggests many planets that could evolve life don’t have a day and night cycle. It’s hard to imagine, but there are organisms living in Earth’s lightless habitats, deep underground or at the bottom of the sea, that give us…

The average number of visible dark patches on the sun's surface in August was higher than any other month since September 2001. The final count was also more than twice as high as experts initially predicted it would be, demonstrating once again that the current solar maximum will be much…

Portuguese residents were terrified when the ground started shaking in the early hours of Monday morning last week. Environmental scientist Deborah R Coen explains why they are right to worry about when the big one will hit Lisbon and many other of our favourite destinations in southern Europe