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A Vietnamese-American astronaut has opened up about her depression after she received a "tsunami of harassment" following the world's first all-female space trip earlier this year.Amanda Nguyen - a 34-year-old scientist and civil rights activist - was part of...

In recent weeks, powerful atmospheric river storms have swept across Washington, Oregon and California, unloading enormous amounts of rain. As rivers surged, they overtopped or breached multiple levees – those long, often unnoticed barriers holding...

I hate to break this to you, but every child is a genetic experiment – and nature doesn’t care if things go...

Mount Etna in Sicily is the world’s most active stratovolcano, which is a high, conical volcano created by repeated...

Fully practical quantum computers haven’t arrived yet, but the quantum computing industry is ending the year on an optimistic...

We tend to imagine the holiday season as universally joyful and social, full of family gatherings, sparkling lights and...

The Neural MindGeorge Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, University of Chicago Press This is a book review in two parts. The...

Kate Whannel,political reporter,Georgia Roberts,Derby political reporterandJoe Pike,politics investigations correspondentPA MediaIn the 14 months since the initial proposal was announced, there have been regular protests by farmers outside Parliament. Some Labour MPs in rural areas have also expressed concern. At...

Mark PoyntingClimate researcherEPARising temperatures in the UK will become "the new normal", a leading government climate adviser has warned, as she called for more to be done to prepare for the impacts of climate change.It comes as the Met...

“At MIT, innovation ranges from awe-inspiring technology to down-to-Earth creativity,” noted Chronicle, during a campus visit this year...