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How you type a word could change the way you emotionally respond to it, and words typed with mainly the right hand seem...

Satellite tracking studies reveal shark behaviour isn't altered by free food handouts.

The problem with fisheries management is that what a government decides will be best for conservation may not be best...

A team led by Lisa Levin from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, has found a ‘hybrid’ vent/seep ecosystem in an area...

Scientists have taken the first steps towards interrogating antimatter to discover whether its spectroscopic...

Your daily fruit and veg intake discernibly dictates the colour of your face, new research has shown.

Saltmarsh species are vulnerable but also resilient to low levels of oil pollution

A device that can stop someone speaking from across a room has been developed

By combining two existing technologies, researchers in America have devised a novel way to generate electricity from...

Astronomers have found compelling evidence for life in the Universe – but only on Earth. Using a phenomenon known as...

New materials which can strengthen electromagnetic forces have been designed.

Mass mating spawnings aren't the only means of coral reproduction: these reef-building organisms have a clever way...

Throughout history, a "gentleman" was something the lower classes deferred to and aspired to be. But now new...

Otzi, the Tyrolean iceman frozen in a glacier for 5300 years until his 1991 discovery, was brown-eyed, prone to heart...

A plant frozen in Siberia for over 30,000 years has been brought back to life by scientists in Russia.

Certain computer games have been shown to improve the symptoms of schizophrenia and produce long-lasting benefits for...

A new drug to block the spread of cancer around the body by targeting the metastasis-provoking factor mTOR has been...

"…fava beans and a nice Chianti, f-f-f-f-f-f!”, uttered the iconic character, Hannibal Lecter. But similar...

Stem cells harvested from heart attack victims' own hearts can be used to repair the injured organ, US doctors...

Fish can distinguish between two groups in the same way as humans.

A virus-sized self-assembling robot crafted from a strand of DNA has been engineered by scientists in America.

Fruit flies that fall victim to parasitic wasps turn to alcohol to fight off the infection, recent research has...

Stem cells harvested from heart attack victims' own hearts can be used to repair the injured organ, US doctors...