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Many researchers thought that earthquakes in the Himalayas recur at regular intervals – but an analysis of sediment cores has shown they are largely random, and the region has seen far more than we pr ...

The Chincha Kingdom was transporting seabird excrement from islands to valleys as early as the 13th century, and this powerful fertiliser may have been key to its economic success ...

I would like to know, scientifically speaking, is it more efficient to dry my towels with them hung up portrait or landscape? Which towel will dry quickest?

Why do jewellery chains put in a box together become so tightly knotted on themselves, and each other, that it is impossible to unknot them? (continued) Having been in the jewellery business for over ...

Life has colonised all the niches on the planet that are available. Currently, the whole of the surface and certain places ...

Cooling metal bars to near absolute zero, suspending microscopic gold beads, or searching for signs that gravity might be ...

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There are huge benefits to ringing the changes when it comes to exercise, finds committed runner Grace Wade when she analyses the science ...

In George Saunders's Vigil, a ghost visits Earth to help a dying oil tycoon, while terraforming efforts on Mars are about to bear fruit in The Rainseekers by Matthew Kressel. Emily H. Wilson's sci-fi ...

We are told we need cynical strategies to "play" the dating game, but the science says this is totally wrong. David Robson enjoys an evidence-based takedown from psychologist Paul Eastwick ...

Feedback is always on the lookout for better ways to measure things, and was delighted to learn how the weight of ice is quantified in Austin, Texas ...