SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

SWNSSpeaking exclusively to the BBC, the woman said that on their second date at her home she had opened the door and "he came in and he pushed me up against the wall and had his hand on my...

Rates of bowel cancer in younger adults have increased in countries around the world, though the trend appears to...

The amount of waste generated by the construction sector underscores an urgent need for embracing circularity —...

MIT-affiliated winners of the 2024 Nobel Prizes were celebrated in Stockholm, Sweden, as part of Nobel Week,...

Space mining is inching closer to reality with the latest agreement between Japanese lunar exploration company ispace and lunar prospecting company Magna Petra.In a memo of understanding, ispace and Magna Petra have agreed to collaborate to utilize the moon's...

Twenty years ago, the seafloor west of Indonesia abruptly pushed upward as a deep undersea fault, where two of Earth’s tectonic plates meet, slipped. The upward shove violently shifted the seawater above, transferring deadly energy from ground to water,...

NASA"There is so much happening, there are new stars being born, there are massive stars dying, there is a lot of gas and dust around it and there is nitrogen and oxygen and because of the state they are...

Delivering babies early, when possible, is currently the only way to deal with the common pregnancy complication pre-eclampsia. But...

A material that’s been around since people built shelters – wood – is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings.Companies behind these “mass timber” projects say that wood is a lower-carbon alternative to...

Science Photo LibraryIn February 2023, BBC News NI broke the Southern Trust cervical scandal when it reported that a woman who was diagnosed with cervical cancer had three previous abnormal smear tests that were missed.After being contacted by the...