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A tiny sensor capable of transmitting information from inside the body and powered by stomach acid has been unveiled by...

The Incas called it the "mother grain" while middle class residents of Cambridge and Canberra call it lunch....

A type of fossil less than a millimetre long and believed originally to be impossible to find, has been unexpectedly...

A Martian meteorite picked up in Africa came from one of the longest-lived volcanic centres in the solar system,...

Stem cells made from adult skin and programmed to hunt down tumours have been developed by scientists in the US.

A computer programme, designed to teach itself, can spot skin cancers as successfully as a panel of trained skin...

A replacement pancreas for a mouse has been successfully grown in an animal of a different species, Japanese scientists...

Researchers have resorted to robotics to help the 40 million people affected worldwide by heart failure.

A chemical found in sharks can block the process that leads to Parkinson's Disease, scientists at Cambridge...

A new study suggests retroviruses are hundreds of millions of years older than previously thought

"Weekend warriors" reduce their mortality risk by 30%.

Stress is often cited as a cause of heart attacks and strokes. Now scientists in the US have shown for the first time...

At ten thousand times smaller than a human hair, chemists in Manchester, England, have tied the world's tiniest...

Our gene of the month has a tale behind it.

The region of the brain used to recognise faces develops in a way that defies conventional neurological wisdom...

A weakened strain of malaria can safely be injected into susceptible humans to produce protective antibodies.

Two new sets of footprints, left by an ancient human relative over three and a half million years ago, have been...

The adage that the surefire way to garner a visit from Father Christmas is not to be naughty has been dismissed as a...

A breakthrough therapy to rescue the tens of thousands of people killed or injured each year by carbon monoxide...

Gene therapy for a fatal inherited paralysing disease called spinal muscular atrophy, SMA, that strikes in infancy has...

Pandas are highly sensitive to the scales of their habitats, and some regions earmarked for conservation are...

Prostate cancer is diagnosed in more than a million men every year, and the rates have more than doubled in recent...

Cambridge scientists have developed a technique to turn skin into blood vessel muscle cells to uncover new treatments...

Going to bed angry or upset may make it harder to suppress negative emotional memories.