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Desalination plants are pumping out 50% more toxic brine waste than previously thought...

An intelligent material has been developed that can interact with a wound overtime to help it heal...

Rare pigments found clinging to the teeth of a 1000 year old skeleton are enabling scientists to paint a colourful...

Fossil flowers from 200 million years ago discovered in China...

A diabetes drug can regenerate hair follicles...

Growing bio-inspired shapes with hundreds of tiny robots.

Sun-soaked device cleans up water and produces superheated steam.

New technologies and advances in biology may impact the way we study and treat neurodegenerative disease…

Chris Hadfield and Stuart Clark take us to the future.

Effects of chemotherapy can be boosted by the sugar mannose, a new study has shown...

‘Nano-tweezers’ create electric fields capable of trapping single molecules and extracting them from living cells.

A soft robot has been given a ‘nervous system’ so it can sense when you touch it.

A lab-grown placenta is a "transformative" step for investigating early stage pregnancy and how it can go...

Researchers have demonstrated the potential of using imagination for treating anxiety related disorders.

By filtering short DNA fragments from blood, scientists can detect, track and monitor cancers with far greater...

Termite mounds up to 4,000 years old have been discovered in Brazil...

Every 4 minutes someone in the UK dies of cancer, researchers look for an improved treatment.

A galaxy in the early universe feeds off its smaller neighbours...

Intestinal bacteria can trigger the development of conditions like type 1 diabetes, a new study has shown...

'Real' fake tan could one day fight skin cancer.

A cell scaffold that recreates the mechanical, biological and electrical conditions that cells need to grow inside...

Non-genetic traits inherited between generations are rarer than previously thought, according to a new study in Cell.

The origin and evolution of tuberculosis has been determined from the largest study of this disease.

If we can't see them, how do we know they're there?