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Major surgery takes a major toll on the body — not unlike running a marathon. You wouldn’t...

Exercise starves cancer cells in mice – and perhaps in humans too Alfredas Pliadis/Xinhua/Alamy Exercise can slow...

Corals build their skeletons out of calcium carbonate, emitting carbon dioxide as a by-product Reinhard Dirscherl/Alamy The...

The Soyuz spacecraft blasting off on 27 November Roscosmos space corporation, via AP/Alamy The International Space Station...

Most cats aren’t keen on water mclemay137/Getty Images Cats with injuries and disabilities can benefit from underwater...

Space to read: the best science fiction novels of the year mikkelwilliam/Getty Images So: what were the...

An HIV-infected human cell STEVE GSCHMEISSNER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY A man has become the seventh person to be...

In 1944, Erwin Schrödinger published a book called What Is Life?. The physicist, famous for his alive-and-dead...

“On those days when I have even less time, there are still ways for me to maintain...

PABLO PORCIUNCULA/AFP via Getty Images Imagine you have a life-threatening disease. All available scientific tests point to...