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Highly effective weight-loss drug Zepbound approve...

A drug called tirzepatide and sold under the name Zepbound has been approved by the US Food and Drug...

The cannabis of the future might not come from pla...

We can now synthesise THC, CBD and other cannabinoids in bioreactors – these could be used to make n...

Distant Milky Way-like galaxy is older than we tho...

The most distant Milky Way-like galaxy ever seen – a barred spiral galaxy – has been spotted by the ...

Atom-by-atom recordings track what happens after s...

Solvation is the complicated process through which a dissolved substance like salt interacts with a ...

Yeast has half its DNA rewritten in quest for synt...

A team aiming to produce the first complex cell with an entirely synthetic genome has created a stra...

A type of vitamin B3 might treat chronic pain rela...

Chronic pain can outlast inflammation, the usual driver of pain in the body – a study in mice sugges...

Rainforest loss in South-East Asia could extend El...

Climate models suggest that deforestation in Indonesia and Malaysia will cause feedback loops that c...

A second big bang? The radical idea rewriting dark...

The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in a disti...

Superconductor hopes dashed after journal retracts...

Nature has retracted the scientific paper that claimed earlier this year that the wonder material kn...

Why is Canada's assisted dying policy in the globa...

Medically assisted dying was behind more than 4 per cent of Canada's deaths last year, but uptake is...

How Jupiter's powerful storms compare to weather o...

From the Great Red Spot to the extreme jet stream, Jupiter’s weather is intense, but that's nothing ...

Just 3.5 minutes of intense activity a day may kee...

A few minutes a day of intense physical activity, which can come from everyday chores, is linked wit...

When to see Venus disappear behind the moon for it...

Venus will vanish behind the moon for about an hour in the morning of 9 November in Europe, western ...

Newfound moon around asteroid Dinkinesh is actuall...

When NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew past the asteroid Dinkinesh, it found an unexpected satellite – but...

Rising humidity has boosted storm potential in nor...

Over the past 40 years, rising humidity means the atmospheric conditions that trigger severe storms ...

Orcas sink another sailboat as a bewildering wave ...

Orcas have been damaging or sinking boats in the Strait of Gibraltar for the past few years and we d...

Will the cannabis of the future be brewed in big v...