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A commonly-prescribed heart drug also has powerful anti-cancer actions, scientists have discovered...

Small protein molecules that can selectively penetrate cancer cells but leave healthy tissue untouched have been...

Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile believe they have made the first ever observations of galaxies that...

Researchers this week have found the very cells that make up the internal compass of migratory animals. These cells are...

The claim that people tend to look in one direction - up and to the left - when they are being honest, and a different...

Altering the activity of the body clock and might hold the key to a new treatment for diabetes...

Plant researchers have discovered a genetic tweak to improve the taste of shop-bought tomatoes

New research led by Jordi Garcia-Fernández and Manuel Irimia at the University of Barcelona and published in the...

An international team of scientists have discovered a new gene in the flu virus, despite it being 30 years since the...

A way in which cells can sense magnetic fields has been revealed in trout and might also hold the key to the human...

Investing vaccines and antibiotics in a wrapping of silk is a safe alternative to refrigeration, scientists have...

A huge, hot dusty disc around a Sun-like star seems to have vanished before our very eyes, and its disappearance cannot...

Sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis, or CF, have lower pH in their airways and this impairs their ability to kill bacteria,...

A nanoscale solution to unclogging blocked blood vessels with clot-dissolving drugs has been revealed by scientists...

The Cassini spacecraft has made measurements of how much Saturn's moon Titan changes shape each time it circles...

Craters around the Moon's south pole may lack the rich reservoirs of water ice and other volatiles that have been...

How can you communicate if you can’t move a muscle? This is the situation for people with ‘locked-in syndrome’ - but a...

A new gene in the flu genome could explain why some strains are killers.

Heart attacks and strokes are much more common in people who have already suffered a previous vascular event.

Make no bones about it, dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new research has revealed.

Scientists have uncovered a new way that carnivorous plants catch prey, using rain power to help them.