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Blood from the last meal consumed by a mosquito 46 million years ago has been identified inside a fossilised mosquito...

With researchers asking for help to track the Spanish slug, here's your quick fire science on invasive species...

Could understanding microbial communities be the key to defeating superbugs?

How do you look for the cause of a brand new medical problem?

Who won Nobel prizes for science in 2013, and what did they discover?

Awarded annually for Chemistry, Physics and Medicine, what are the Nobel Prizes?

fifty-five million years ago, the planet suddenly warmed. But why? New evidence suggests a huge release of carbon...

A free-floating planet without a star to orbit has been found about 80 light years away...

A new technique can find drugs that can prevent dangerous side effects of other drugs...

A drug that can reverse the damage done by the disease MS (multiple sclerosis) has been discovered by US scientists.

A new technique for printing microbial communities in 3D is revealing how different bacteria work together to fend off...

Scientists in the US have used genetic techniques to solve a murder mystery - in citrus trees.

scientists in South Korea have analysed the genomes of a number of big cats, including the tiger, lion and snow leopard...

The chemical receptor on the mosquito antenna for the insect repellent DEET has been discovered by US scientists...

Mice that don't suffer jetlag have been developed by scientists in Japan...

Vaccination using hypodermic needles might be replaced by a breathable nanoparticle vaccine, new research suggests...

Stem cells that can turn into dopamine-producing neurones might be a future treatment for Parkinson's disease...

A 12-hour tide-predicting clock, running inside the brains of small marine crustaceans, has been discovered by UK...

Doctors in China have grown a replacement nose on the forehead of a man injured in a car accident.

A new technique to block antibiotic resistance in bacteria has been discovered by scientists in Denmark...

A mummified body known as the Cashel man was recently found to be the oldest so called ‘bog body’ with intact skin...

Researchers have developed a new way of tracking the development of Alzheimer's disease using a radioactive marker...

Google have teamed up with the Raspberry Pi Foundation to get make software development tools available to children.

The Curiosity rover has found no evidence of methane in Mars's atmosphere, making it less likely to life lurks...