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The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday is likely to be one of the deadliest this decade, seismologists said, with a more than 100 km (62 miles) rupture between the Anatolian and Arabian plates.

BBC Sport pundit Garth Crooks criticised three Liverpool players for their part in the 3-0 loss at Wolves on Saturday afternoon

Movement of tectonic plates against each other sends seismic waves rippling across earth’s surface

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Scientists and government agencies have been worried about the space junk surrounding Earth for decades. But humanity’s starry ambitions are farther reaching than the space just around Earth. Ever since the 1960s with the launch of the Apollo program and the emergence of the space race between the U.S. and…

The discovery could also shed light on possible life beyond Earth by providing clues about how the oceans of Saturn and Jupiter’s moons are shaped

When I was a kid, I knew all the dinosaurs — not personally, of course, because they were extinct by then, and woolly mammoths roamed the earth. But I was a fan of such prehistoric stars as brontosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex and especially Raquel Welch, who wore a cave woman bikini…

Carl Olsson’s discreet documentary is an unfailingly human look at the funeral industry and those who work continually surrounded by mortality

USPCA officers say they are 'horrified' after a young badger was found trapped and injured in a snare in Co Tyrone

"This is the worst example of what Hollywood does to science," says one expert about this notoriously absurd movie

Critics call the clock a scare-mongering device — but the problem is, we have good reasons to fear extinction