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Working excessive hours has long been thought to increase the risk of depression – but after conducting the largest ever review of research into this area, researchers say there is a surprising lack of evidence supporting the link

Elephants that lived on the island of Sicily lost more than 85 per cent of their body mass over a period of 350,000 years before going extinct around 19,000 years ago

Meat Me Halfway is a thoughtful, engaging documentary about our attachment to eating animals and how we might move on from it to help tackle climate change

A religious settlement in India located temples and dormitories near a natural reservoir and left gaps in the brick walls to let in cool winds, creating an early air conditioning system

A construction vehicle designed to operate on difficult terrain and "walk" up steep slopes can operate on its own, building walls, moving heavy stones and trees, and even digging trenches where safety hazards make it difficult to allow human operators

In the Early Middle Ages, many European people reopened their relatives’ graves to recover family heirlooms. The practice had previously been interpreted as grave robbing, but closer examination has revealed patterns in the objects that were taken

A set of mirrors used to detect gravitational waves is the largest system ever to be brought close to a frigid quantum state at a temperature of just 77 nanokelvin

An analysis of 444,000 US biomedical patents shows that women-majority inventor teams are more likely to patent technology that can help women – but such teams are severely underrepresented

A 26.5-million-year-old mammal unearthed in China looked like a horse, fed like a giraffe but was actually a rhino – and it was one of the largest mammals ever to live

Internet giants Google and Facebook have discovered they are experiencing computer chip failures that can corrupt data or make it difficult to unlock encrypted files

The chance of getting covid-19 falls sharply three weeks after a first dose of either the Pfizer/BioNTech or Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines, UK statistics show

An algorithm from the 1990s used to encrypt mobile phone data was deliberately weakened to allow eavesdropping, claims a team of cryptanalysts. It is possible the flaw could still allow access to some phones in use today

Scientists have discovered key molecular events that shape embryonic development in the second week of gestation, a critical stage when many pregnancies are lost

An analysis of Scottish health data shows that heart attacks and strokes have fallen dramatically since 1990, but further progress is being hindered by weight gain and the growing prevalence of diabetes

Phthalates – a group of chemicals added to plastics to keep them flexible – have been found in newly laid herring gull eggs in Cornwall, UK

Every day, countless deep-dwelling ocean animals rise to the surface to feed, speeding the transfer of carbon to the deep ocean – a robot has now begun to study the creatures

The first module of the Chinese Space Station launched in April, and on 17 June it will receive its first visitors: three astronauts who will stay there for three months

The first module of the Chinese Space Station launched in April, and on 17 June it will have its first visitors: three astronauts who will stay there for three months

The Hittite religious site of Yazılıkaya has many carved images of deities, and a new interpretation suggests that they symbolise Hittite ideas about the universe