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A new study has found that leprosy was circulating in Chile some 4,000 years ago, meaning the disease arrived in the Americas ...

A survey of more than 1,000 American teen drivers has found they spend about 21 percent of each drive looking at their phones ...

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

Medications sold under brand names like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Saxenda have become famous for their weight-loss benefits, but ...

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have the nickname 'forever chemicals' thanks to their persistence in the ...

The most massive chunk of Mars ever found on Earth could sell for up to US$4 million in a Sotheby's auction later this month.

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For the very first time, scientists have sequenced DNA from the entire genome of an individual who lived in ancient Egypt up ...

A stash of "unusually large" 2,000-year-old shoes dug up at a Roman site in northern England has left archaeologists ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...