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Psychologists have been testing Amazonian tribespeople to reveal if humans grasp concepts of geometry from looking at...

Scientists have found a way to selectively shut down the components of the immune system responsible for triggering...

Gossip you hear about others affects whether you even see them, a new study has shown.

Children who spend more time in institutional care have shorter telomeres, caps on the end of chromosomes that are...

Using state-of-the-art X-ray scanning technology to recreate the brains of 200 million year old animals thought to be...

Imagine a group of British Army Air Corps pilots flying over the deserts of the Near East in the early years of the...

Earlier this month, a major conference was held at the Geological Society in London to discuss something that will not...

Researchers in Seattle and Washington have solved an “enormous jigsaw puzzle” to design two novel proteins that bind to...

Scientists have solved a spidery controversy and shown that tarantulas shoot silk from their feet to stop themselves...

Stem cells may be rejected by the animals they first came from, according to research published in the journal Nature...

Bacteria living in the guts of certain mosquitoes block the development of malaria-causing parasites, new research...

Harbour seals use their vibration-sensitive whiskers to detect the size and shape of objects that have passed through...

The world's largest aggregation of whale sharks has been found off the Mexican coast

In the last 30 years, corn and wheat crops have dropped by 3.8 and 5.5 per cent in response to climate change. This...

Two predictions made from general relativity in 1918 have been finally tested...

Researchers at CERN have managed to trap anti-hydrogen atoms for longer than ever before...

Scientists have solved an echinoderm conundrum by uncovering a starfish that stays forever young

At just one centimetre across, the box jellyfish makes a poor contender for being a paragon of intellect. But now new...

Bigger brain regions caused a ‘big bang’ in the evolution of African electric fish, new research has shown.

The sensation of mental fatigue we feel, coupled with making more mistakes when we get tired, is because sleep-deprived...

Bacteria can survive accelerations of 400,000g, making it highly likely that bugs could survive an interplanetary crash...

Selfish genes could be used to rob mosquitoes of their ability to transmit malaria. In a new study, researchers show...

Naked Archaeologist Simcha Jakobovici claims to have found candidates for some cross nails, or nails from the cross.