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We studied 16 bat species in the UK to learn about the viruses they carry and understand the risk to humans.
Today’s reports of crumbling, dilapidated and dangerous hospital buildings are a far cry from the design ambitions extolled by early NHS architects and planners.
Our study revealed that people who nap frequently have larger brain volume.
Participants in both groups lost, on average, 4% of their bodyweight over a year.
Climate change threatens longer and more severe droughts. What will it mean for our diets?
It’s not always the case that poorer citizens want more public spending and richer people want less.
Great crested newts cause expensive delays to construction – trained sniffer dogs may offer a solution.
Mind uploading could allow human consciousness to live on long after their body dies.
For-profit care homes are increasingly synonymous with children being placed far from their homes.
Argentina has convicted more people for its dictatorship-era crimes than Uruguay has.
To fully understand the extent of climate-related dangers the Arctic – and our planet – is facing, we must focus on organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye.
Glasgow welcomes the world’s most famous graffiti artist, drawn to the city by the much-loved ‘Coneheid’ Duke of Wellington statue outside his exhibition.
A microbiologist on the deadly germs lurking in your kitchen and why you need to wash tea towels and dishcloths more often.
An expert on mosquito ecology provides top tips to avoid being bitten by these pesky insects.
The Soviets controlled the media, set up camps for dissenters and installed politicians who would do their bidding in east Berlin and east Germany.
The allies determination to ‘save’ Berlin by flying planes in day after day in 1948, was a symbolic turning point.
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
AI could allow cybercriminals to operate with greater efficiency, targeting more people at once.
A growing number of people are finding out they are autistic in adulthood.
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