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Discovery of why barnacle larvae kick and wriggle could pave the way towards environmentally-friendly anti-fouling...

Ocean-going salps may filter their way to being an important means of sending carbon down to the seabed.

A new anti-malarial agent has been discovered that may provide an alternative treatment for the disease which kills...

Starved fruit-flies sleep for fewer hours and perform better on learning tasks than fully-fed but sleep-deprived ones,...

SOS signals calling for immediate help from nearby animals can help plants to fend off attacking herbivores, new...

Lab-made templates, which mimic the film-like corneal tissue covering the outer eye, could help to reduce blindness...

The wreck of a 19th Century British ship has been found in the frigid waters of northern Canada.

Britain's oldest house was unearthed in Yorkshire. Identified by radiocarbing dating to be from 8,500BC, it is 500...

Doomsday book of 1066 can be seen online at www.pase.ac.uk

The earliest evidence of tool-use by human ancestors has been found in Ethiopia.

Duncan Howitt-Marshall and Diana O'Carroll discuss the repatriation and reburial of the head of Yagan, the...

Diana O'Carroll and Duncan Howitt Marshall discuss the discovery of tortoise bones at Stafford Castle - the...

There may be more fish living at extreme depths of the ocean than previously thought. And snailfish are caught on...

This month an initial ‘roll call’ of what species are present in the 25 marine areas of the Census of Marine Life has...

Acoustic tags attached to North Atlantic right whales in Canada's Bay of Fundy show that when the seas are noisier...

Keeping local waters free from land-based pollutants can help coral reefs cope with problems like climate change...

Falling pregnant six months after an initial miscarriage offers women the best chance of having a healthy second...

Depsite it’s humble appearances, newly-sequenced genetic information from the lowly sea sponge could help scientists to...

The orang-utan’s image as a laid-back ape has been further underlined this week in work by Herman Pontzer and his...

Rabbits can grow their own replacement joints using their own stem cells, according to the first study of its kind,...

For most of us, vaccinations are a normal, if not very pleasant, part of life. But what if there was an alternative?...

Research published in Nature this week suggests that climate change is leading to fatter and fitter yellow-bellied...

A family of proteins has been identified that may limit the number of times any cell can divide, according to research...

Moss spores get extra lift from the same process that generates smoke rings and mushroom clouds, according to new...