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For as long as I have been gardening, there has been a tip I have come across at least once a week: the idea that a ring of ...

This year hasn’t been a great one for the environment, so a book about the long history of environmental damage may be a hard ...

An analysis of hundreds of bromalites – fossilised faeces and vomit – shows how changes in diet enabled dinosaurs to take ...

Physicists have long wondered why particles can only have an electric charge of +1, -2 or any whole number. Now we ...

Scientists studying puppy cognition explore the impact of breeding versus training, shed new light on milestones in dogs' ...

Researchers have used lasers to encode information in diamonds, demonstrating record-breaking data density in an ultra-stable ...