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 ...

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Superannuation funds are under pressure to justify their expenses after one of Australia’s biggest used members’ savings for ...

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 ...

In modern medicine, scopolamine (marketed in the UK as hyoscine hydrobromide) is prescribed to prevent motion sickness, ...

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 ...

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