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NASA’s largest space observatory has taken a striking picture of a giant cosmic bubble to celebrate being in orbit for 26 years

Women are more likely to die after a heart attack than men because of traditional gender roles rather than because of biological differences between the sexes

Virtual tourism is about to take off, giving people the chance to visit the world's most beautiful – and inaccessible – places without leaving home

Most of the US has better weather now than 40 years ago, and this might explain why Americans tend to be less convinced of the dangers of climate change

The extraordinary find pushes back the arrival of primates to the continent by 18 million years but raises another question - why didn't they thrive there?

A last-minute U-turn exempted scientists from the UK’s anti-lobbying rule but damage has been done and the future still looks difficult

Water may look like a local resource but is actually a global commons that requires a joined-up plan to distribute fairly

Our emotional association with words and names seems to be influenced by our use of computer keyboards – an effect that has now been found all over the web

Europe in Victorian times was already starting to see evidence of global warming, with temperatures rising by 0.4 °C and ice on lakes melting earlier

The team behind Dawn, the first ever asteroid-hopping spacecraft, have asked NASA for permission to extend its mission to a third destination