According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second ...

Visitor numbers to Antarctica could reach 450,000 a year within a decade, according to one scenario. How do we stem the tide?

Roland Barthes’ notion that the author is dead has been incredibly influential, though it was not as original or ...

Despite seeming like a universal language – and sometimes they do function that way – emojis can be at once more vague, and ...

The new lung cancer screening program needs to be independently evaluated to keep it on track, and to minimise the harms.

The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program has been particularly important for understanding when a hurricane is about to ...

Recent findings from the Climate Change Committee, independent advisers to the UK government on climate policy, show that the ...

Both Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu talked of regime change in Iran. Instead they may have left the Islamic Republic ...

This is the first time such results have been achieved in both children and adult patients born with a specific type of ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an urgent warning about tianeptine – a substance marketed as a dietary ...

As humanity moves closer to extracting and using space resources, the need for a cohesive and responsible global governance ...

There’s been no research done to determine whether men are watched more closely than women, but regardless, most don’t ...