Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. Volcanoes on the dark side of the moon mainly erupted about 2.8 billion years ago, according to fragments of ...

Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. A new modelling study says global plastic waste will double by the middle of the century if we stick to business ...

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Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. Survey: A study based solely on people’s responses to a series of questions. People: This is a study based on ...

Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. Randomised controlled trial: Subjects are randomly assigned to a test group, which receives the treatment, or a ...

Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. People are likely to prefer a poem written by artificial intelligence over genuine poems written by the greats, ...

Peer-reviewed: This work was reviewed and scrutinised by relevant independent experts. An elusive marine worm not recorded by scientists since the 1950s is actually widespread in the central ...