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US scientists have found a number of new gene faults linked to a type of motor neurone disease known as ALS or Lou...

An international team have tracked down a gene fault responsible for the heart defect known as a "hole in the...

A wake of material from a comet which skimmed through the Solar atmosphere in 2011 is being used to probe the...

The Atacama Large Millimetre Array has caught an image of what may be a planet in the process of forming.

Parents are subconsciously selecting names that linguistically portray bigger and stronger for boys, and more petite...

Radioactivity released by Cold War nuclear tests has enabled Swedish scientists to probe how adult brains produce new...

Manganese leaching from lava stones around Mt Etna could explain a high incidence of Parkinson's disease in the...

Was Michael Douglas right when he said his oral cancer was caused by a virus?

Scientists have engineered a viral vector that can convert cells lining the airways into producers of flu-fighting...

Optics develop to send 400Gbits per second down an optical fibre 12800km long and could reduce the price and increase...

Ice age plant samples have been recovered from polar glaciers and brought back to life after 400 years in the deep...

Conversing with a computer-generated face can suppress schizophrenic symptoms...

Can we watch chemical reactions taking place with new atomic force microscope technology?

Just one return trip to Mars would eat up about two-thirds of an astronaut's lifetime "safe" dose of...

QuickFire Science on the 60th anniversary of the first complete ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tensing...

Radio astronomers in Western Australia have resolved the mystery of a star which appear much brighter than it ought to...

This month the Sun produced four sizeable flares within the space of a week, suggesting that it is become more active...

Astronomers have found evidence for rocky material in orbit around dead stars.

Back in March a meteor hit the Moon, and now NASA have captured images of the house-sized crater that it created.

British astronaut is to fly to the International Space Station in 2015.

Why penguins have lost the power of flight have been revealed by new research on other aquatic birds...

Scientists have used 3D printing techniques to construct a new trachea to successfully treat a child born with airway...

A mile-wide tornado ripped through Moore, Oklahoma this week. Here's the Quickfire Science on these destructive...

Cockroaches have evolved the ability to detect and avoid the sugar bait in traps used to capture with them...