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A clinical trial has found that VER-01, a drug derived from cannabis, eases chronic lower back pain without serious side ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

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Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

The way antibiotics called polymyxins pierce the armour of bacteria has been revealed in stunning detail by high-resolution ...

The world’s best clocks may be sensitive to an odd mix of quantum and relativistic effects that would stretch time and test ...

Fungi are critical to human life and the planet. They recycle nutrients, helping keep our soil and plants healthy; they store ...

Inhalers that combine relieving breathlessness with preventing it seem to be the most effective option for reducing asthma ...

There are signs deep beneath the Pacific Ocean that an exploding star once sent cosmic rays blasting out towards Earth, and ...

The rhythm of an infant's brain activity seems to put them in constant learning mode, whereas that of an adult may allow them ...

Huntington’s disease has been successfully treated for the first time using a gene therapy, which may be available in the US ...