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19 August 2016
Birds serenade their incubating eggs to control how their offspring will handle heat, Australian researchers have shown. In a number of species, including fish and even humans, parents can guide the...
25 May 2017
The long-standing question of why, and how, flamingos balance on just one leg seems to be about minimising muscular...
26 April 2017
Caterpillars that can munch their way through plastic bags have been described by scientists in Cambridge.
07 April 2017
With photosynthesis levels rising, could plants be the key to combating climate change?
07 April 2017
Everyone loves catching some ZZZs. For some of us, sleep is not always restful, and for scientists, it’s still a bit of...
10 March 2017
Scientists have constructed artificial chromosomes capable of genetically “booting up” and running in cultured cells.
27 February 2017
Many of us are probably all too familiar with the looming dread that comes with the morning after a night of drinking....
14 January 2017
A new study suggests retroviruses are hundreds of millions of years older than previously thought
10 January 2017
Our gene of the month has a tale behind it.
08 December 2016
Pandas are highly sensitive to the scales of their habitats, and some regions earmarked for conservation are...
14 November 2016
Scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute have found that the ancestors of chimps and bonobos got up to...
14 November 2016
During the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak, the virus picked up genetic mutations that increased its ability to infect...
14 November 2016
Huntington’s disease is caused by carrying a faulty version of the gene for the Huntingtin protein, but the messenger...
11 November 2016
The genes which allow Malaria to avoid treatment have been found by scientists working in Cambodia
05 November 2016
The first example of a fossilised dinosaur brain has been discovered in a pebble picked up on a UK beach.
28 October 2016
An extract produced by a human intestinal parasite can reverse the symptoms of asthma in mice, scientists in...
21 October 2016
Eggs capable of being fertilised and giving rise to healthy baby mice have been produced in the culture dish using stem...
07 October 2016
Scientists have successfully extracted proteins preserved for nearly 4 million years in ostrich eggshells.
30 September 2016
Bees can get emotional just like humans, a new study has shown...
30 September 2016
A fat formerly condemned for its association with heart attacks turns out to be powerfully protective against arterial...
27 September 2016
Sonic holograms that shape sound waves into complex patterns to manipulate tiny objects, have been developed by...
09 September 2016
Giraffe have long been assumed to be a single species. However, a new genetic study argues that there are in fact four...
26 August 2016
A new technique that makes whole rats see-through allows scientists to image intact organs, offering a bigger picture...
25 August 2016
How lobsters eat poisonous jellyfish without getting stung.