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Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to study distant quasars – the brightest objects in the universe – have captured a rare image that raises new questions about how they form

The way clinicians diagnose obesity is set to change with new guidelines acknowledging that some obese people are perfectly healthy, while others live with chronic disease.

By Cosmos Not simply Roman propaganda, new research has found that women were at the centre of social networks in Celtic communities and may have been influential in many spheres of Iron Age life.

Researchers have replicated the pattern of chain mail and created a new polymer which could be used to improve body armour.

A study of thousands of hours of flight calls suggests that songbirds may be forming social connections with other species as they migrate, possibly even exchanging information about the journey.

Inside each octopus arm is a massive nervous system, and now researchers have shown that it's segmented.

A large analysis of weight-loss drugs, like Ozempic, has surprised health researchers who found links to multiple new benefits and side effects.

Advances continue to be made in neurobionics, with the latest example helping a tetraplegic person to control a video game with their brain.

After noticing that 20 captive chimpanzees at Kumamoto Sanctuary, Japan, appeared to urinate at about the same time, a team of researchers decided to spy on their toilet habits… for science.

Deep inside Earth there are mysterious and fascinating regions the size of continents at the boundary between the core and mantle, and earth scientists have just cracked the mystery of what they're made of.