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Urine is rich in nitrogen, which is important for plant growth, and now scientists have found an efficient way of utilising this to make human wastewa

A drug that inhibits inflammation helped mice live longer and reduced the animals’ incidence of cancer and age-related health problems

Researchers recently found a possible reservoir of liquid water more than 11 kilometres below Mars’s surface – the latest in a long series of potentia

Total solar eclipses are astonishing, but travelling to get to one is less so – this episode of Dead Planets Society is all about rearranging the sola

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’s much-publicised AI summit at Bletchley Park has come to an end, and the result seems to be a promise to hold more summ

The record for the maximum human lifespan has been unbroken since the 1990s, but that might soon change, according to a new way of analysing mortality

Children seem to be less likely to be obese if they live at high altitude, which may be due to its effect on metabolism and appetite

A physics phenomenon discovered 150 years ago allows tiny objects to levitate using just sunlight – and now it could enable swarms of sensors to explo

Google’s Android Earthquake Alerts program is a globe-spanning earthquake early-warning system that uses billions of phone sensors to detect seismic s

Early humans had almost no hope of surviving severe burns, so evolution may have prioritised the selection of genes that heal mild ones, which could b