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Porous molecules, useful in a huge range of applications including separating chemicals and catalysing reactions, may...

By learning from pterosaurs we may be able to make aircrafts more manouverable.

Attacking bacteria are sensed by plants which need to fine-tune their immune systems in response.

Researchers working on fragments of a large meteorite that exploded over Lake Tagish in Canada back in the year 2000...

Scientists have discovered why ex-smokers commonly complain about gaining weight when they quit, and why active smokers...

A Nature paper reveals an exciting fossil story that shows some very strange extinct marine invertebrates called...

Marine Reserves Coalition call for one third of British seas to be fully protected.

Materials are normally either hard and brittle or soft and weak, but now they might be able to be electrically tuneable.

A group of Scandinavian researchers led by Göran Scharmer of Stockholm University have uncovered some clues about how...

Making very big headlines at the moment is an outbreak of a new strain of E. coli in northern Germany; it’s thought to...

The largest ever DNA computer has been built, which might help build diagnostic tests or even understand cells.

Scientists have developed a new weapon to blind mosquitoes to the carbon dioxide "smell" of their victims...

Exposing newborn clownfish to the sorts of CO2 levels predicted for the year 2050 and beyond causes the fish to ignore...

Jupiter's moon Io is known to be highly volcanically active - now, data collected by the Gallileo craft looking at...

Molecular gas streaming away from galaxies has been spotted by the Herschel Telescope. This gas could be responsible...

Data from the Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has given us a unique...

Up to half of all hot Jupiters may orbit their parent star contrary to the star's direction of rotation. New...

Results from Gravity Probe B test and support Einstein's theories of relativity - and have only been 50 years in...

People who take part in or attend 'cultural' activities tend to have better physical and mental health...

Researchers from Ontario this week have identified which parts of the brain are involved in human echolocation....

A material that temporarily transforms itself into a "permanent" magnet when a small voltage is applied has...

A dye used medically for over fifty years could be a shot in the arm for investigating coronary artery disease and...

By studying the wobbles of a compound called ytterbium flouride in an electric field, scientists have discovered the...

Scientists have developed a sugar-fuelled chemical filter to clean up contaminated water.