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A 146,000-year-old skull known as the 'dragon man', thought to be the sole representative of an ancient human species, ...

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If you've got a dodgy tummy, diarrhoea and have been vomiting, it's easy to blame a 'tummy bug' or 'off food'.

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The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

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The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Gilead Sciences' twice-yearly injection to prevent HIV – a move the company hailed as a major breakthrough in the fight against the sexually ...