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People in New Delhi, India, wait in line for water in June 2024 during a heat wave.Credit: Raj K Raj/Hindustan...

A team of health-care workers screen people for sleeping sickness in the village of Boffa in Guinea.Credit: Brent Stirton/Getty Images...

Thousands of preprints have been withdrawn from the arXiv preprint server because of factual or methodological errors.Credit: Ralf Geithe/GettyResearchers have...

In 2023, more than 450 scientists who had begun publishing research only in the previous eight years were among the...

Precise timekeeping helps us in our daily lives: from pinpointing your precise location with GPS to synchronising financial deals to...

Download the 27 December long read podcastMarc Abrahams created the Ig Nobel prizes in 1991, after years of collecting examples...

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At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a hero was born: Leif Penguinson, a Rockhopper penguin on a mission to...

For painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo in Vertumnus (1591), emperor Rudolf II was what he ate.Credit: Giuseppe Arcimboldo/Buyenlarge/GettyEating and Being: A History...

As climate change and artificial intelligence (AI) reshape the world, some say that reality is starting to look a lot...