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For the mayor of Paris, the city's journey to next year's Olympic Games included an epiphany born of brutality: the slaughter of 17 people by gunmen acting in the names of al-Qaida and the Islamic State group.Anne Hidalgo says the 2015…

Scientists for the first time have witnessed pieces of metal crack, then fuse back together without any human intervention, overturning fundamental scientific theories in the process. If the newly discovered phenomenon can be harnessed, it…

Reports of Samantha Ruth Prabhu taking a break from acting have been doing the rounds for weeks now. The actress reportedly wants to focus on her health, after being diagnosed with an auto immune condition, myositis.While Samanthaherself…

“It does look like it’s going to be around basically through late Thursday and into early Friday in the Midwest," said David Brown, an air-quality meteorologist with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, of the smoke.…

Short blasts of air with lower levels of oxygen than normal may be a new way to tackle nerve pain. The treatment, which involves breathing normal air and oxygen depleted air alternately for about half an hour, has been shown in animal…

Could we use the hours spent snoozing more productively to improve our health? This is the suggestion behind a range of new devices and products that claim to 'restore' different parts of the body overnight. Adrian Monti asked experts to…

An international policy struck decades ago is healing a hole in the ozone layer above the Antarctic — but according to a new study, it's also having an unintended climate benefit on the opposite side of the world. Climate researchers at…

This representational picture shows doctors examining a patient's face with a medical mask for cosmetic purposes. — Unsplash/FileReceiving treatment for a burn wound is not quite easy, nor is it as painless as it may seem. In fact,…

Inspired by sutures developed thousands of years ago, MIT engineers have designed "smart" sutures that can not only hold tissue in place, but also detect inflammation and release drugs. The new sutures are derived from animal tissue,…

Knee injury can range from minor sprains and strains to serious ligament tears and fractures (Image: Shutterstock)Treatment options such as physiotherapy, arthroscopic surgery, or open knee surgery are available, tailored to the severity of…