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03 December 2017
Where is the HIV vaccine? It is a fair question, is it not?
01 December 2017
Is a cure for HIV on the horizon, and what does cure, in the context of HIV, really mean?
30 November 2017
What do the UK-based editor of a leading technology magazine and a self-taught coder from a low-income neighbourhood in...
24 November 2017
Did the evolutionary process towards musical abilities begin in the primeval oceans? And have Human footsteps...
16 November 2017
Analysing regional differences in the DNA of wood and has allowed scientists to determine the location of the original...
16 November 2017
The recent discovery of two neutron stars colliding brings us one step closer to understanding how heavier elements,...
14 November 2017
Our Gene of the Month is in the pub already.
09 November 2017
Television viewers could be offered adverts that are a lot more relevant and personal with the help of new technology...
08 November 2017
Recently, emergence has been helping to explain consciousness and free will.
02 November 2017
Mummified bodies from Egypt and the Canary Islands are having their digestive tracts tested and compared to living...
27 October 2017
Movie directors regularly manipulate the passage of time in films to entertain their audiences, but researchers are...
19 October 2017
Astronomers have witnessed a collision between two neutron stars for the first time, thanks to a tie-in between...
12 October 2017
Wind speeds around the world seem to be decreasing in a phenomenon known as ‘stilling’ and European scientists are...
10 October 2017
As most people know, all surgeries — no matter how minor — are risky for patients. Things can go wrong during the...
08 October 2017
This gene is up all night!
05 October 2017
An artificial leaf that can harvest energy from the sun faster than a natural one could lead to a new generation of...
28 September 2017
As residents in the Caribbean try to piece together their lives after being battered by two powerful hurricanes in a...
21 September 2017
By combining car sharing apps with a smartphone’s ability to measure movement and vibration, researchers are hoping to...
18 September 2017
Lively—almost childlike—the 70-year-old men skipped out of a monastery one fine morning. They’d just spent five days...
14 September 2017
A gene named after a mythical dog with multiple heads.
14 September 2017
What if an app could recognise when you are craving unhealthy food and give you a notification to warn you not to eat...
07 September 2017
Discarded gas from black holes spreads across galaxies and can even influence the formation of stars
04 September 2017
How reptiles turned into mammals...
31 August 2017
Bee-based maths is helping teach swarms of drones to find weeds, while robotic mowers keep hedgerows in shape.