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The epilepsy medication sodium valproate is linked to developmental problems in fetuses, but lab studies may now have found a way to prevent this

How can you guarantee a huge payout from any lottery? Take a cue from combinatorics, and perhaps gather a few wealthy pals, says Jacob Aron

The northern lights, or aurora borealis, are expected to be stronger than they have been for at least a decade over the next few months. Here is how t

Assigning certain sizes, shapes and positions of bubbles to characters within Morse and binary codes means messages could be stored in ice

Scientists have created an “unknome” of proteins encoded by human genes, whose existence is known but whose functions are mostly not

Large pieces of dark matter hitting Jupiter’s largest moon would form distinctive craters in its icy surface, and upcoming space missions might be abl

A galaxy inside a bubble may be evidence that the universe was starting to become transparent 330 million years after the big bang

Changes to the structure of DNA within fat cells may be why it is often so hard to keep weight off after you have lost it

SpaceX claims the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket will happen “within days”, but the Federal Aviation Administration has not yet approved the

A security researcher has found an old data feed that reveals how full the urine tank on the International Space Station is, allowing them to track wh