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AIDS Virus Achillies Heel Discovered

Scientists at the US NIH vaccine research centre may have uncovered HIV's weak spot, offering the promise of a target for a vaccine. Patients with HIV make heaps of antibodies agai...

Deep Sea Flirting

This week we've had another exciting glimpse of what life is like in the unseen deep ocean, from a team of scientists led by Tsunemi Kubodera from the Na...

Anti-Cancer Asprin

The humble aspirin is a bit of a wonder-drug. Not only can it cure aches and pains, but some research has shown that it might help to prevent certain types of can...

Tongue to Talk About

Scientists have found the animal with the world's most powerful tongue. It's not a whale, an elephant or even a cow, it's the giant palm salamander, Bolitoglossa ...

Proteins Produce Prematurity

Research presented at a scientific conference in the US has suggested a way that protein analysis could be used to predict premature births. The researchers have been studying...

Storm Clouds Gathering on Climate Change Horizon

If you can't take the heat you move into the shade, right? But what about if that means the entire Earth? Well that's the strategy being put forward on a planetary scale by Iowa St...

Getting to the Heart of the Health Effects of Pollution

Researchers at the University of Rochester, US, have taken an elderly groups of rats on the rodent equivalent of senior citizens road trip to find out how air pol...

A Hop Skip and a Jump into a Time Capsule

Researchers in Australia are hopping with excitement having uncovered some of the most pristine fossils ever found in Australia, including 8 new species of kangaroo. The finds also...

How our Appetite for Eating Fish is Stripping Coral Reefs

This week, I published a paper based on research I did for my PhD, which looked at the growing trend for eating fish that have been collected from coral reefs all around the world ...

Stroke Reveals the Smoking Gun behind Nicotine addiction

Scientists in the US have identified a coin-sized region of the brain responsible for nicotine addiction. Writing in this week's edition of Science, University of Iowa researcher N...