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Carbon nanotubes could be as bad for you as asbestos, a new UK study has shown.

Doctors in Germany have used gene therapy to grow a complete new epidermis for a boy with a life-threatening inherited...

Scientists have found evidence that baseline sleep prior to fear learning is associated with reduced activity in brain...

Fossil finds have revealed male woolly mammoths were more likely to fall into natural traps

Drugs present in wastewater used to irrigate farmland can affect the growth and development of insects feeding on...

Whether a cancer patient responds to certain treatments is dictated by the the bacteria they carry in their intestines...

A diabetes drug also treats acute myeloid leukaemia...

Plants use a trick of the light to make their flowers look blue to bees...

New technique tried in human embryos

A cholesterol injection can reduce the damage done by a heart attack, new research has shown.

Fever during pregnancy might cause development heart and facial abnormalities, a new study has shown.

Being able to pick your own workout could have benefits even after you hang up those dumbells.

Technique used for the first time in a UK lab

Three quarters of the world's honey is laced with neonicotinoid insecticides, a new study has shown this week.

The condition polycystic kidney disease, also known as PKD, has been recreated using stem cells in a culture dish by...

A gene therapy technique that can help to repair the retina and restore lost vision has been tested successfully on...

Debris swept away by the 2011 Japanese tsunami has carried hundreds of new species across the Pacific Ocean to the...

A dipstick test that can rapidly and accurately tell Zika infection from dengue has been developed by US researchers.

Protein discoveries in algae may help scientists engineer faster-growing crop plants to meet the food demands of our...

A large electric eel can deliver a shock ten times more powerful than a TASER, a new study has shown.

Scientists have a new best estimate for our remaining carbon budget, but does this bring new hope?

A gene therapy technique that can halt the progression of a condition resembling multiple sclerosis (MS) in mice has...

When you hear the word robots, you probably think of giant metal creatures moving awkwardly around the room — or...