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Scientists have successfully extracted proteins preserved for nearly 4 million years in ostrich eggshells.

New research suggests that living forever is off the cards

Bees can get emotional just like humans, a new study has shown...

A fat formerly condemned for its association with heart attacks turns out to be powerfully protective against arterial...

Sonic holograms that shape sound waves into complex patterns to manipulate tiny objects, have been developed by...

A genetic test that can highlight heart attack risk decades before it happens has been unveiled by an international...

A new concept in energy storage based on water and capable of soaking up power from solar cells has been developed by...

Using brain implants, a pair of monkeys have reproduced some of Shakespeare's work to break a speed record for...

Giraffe have long been assumed to be a single species. However, a new genetic study argues that there are in fact four...

The Dawn spacecraft sheds light on the dwarf planet Ceres...

Rigid robots step aside — the octopus-shaped soft equivalent, “octobot” is wiggling around.

A new technique that makes whole rats see-through allows scientists to image intact organs, offering a bigger picture...

Growing human noroviruses in the lab.

How lobsters eat poisonous jellyfish without getting stung.

Researchers think they may have found a "coffee gene".

Birds serenade their incubating eggs to control how their offspring will handle heat.

Empathy may make us learn faster when it comes to helping others, new research suggests.

Many people complain that going on holiday caused them to catch a cold, and now we may know why!

A plant virus spread by aphids renders tomato plants irresistible to bumblebees, which rush in to pollinate them, a...

Living 500 years or more, a species of shark has swum away with the medal for world's longest-lived vertebrate...

A new chemical has been developed to treat parasitic infections responsible for three deadly tropical diseases.

A compound from fruit has been found to dissolve painful kidney stones.

Three new vaccines for Zika virus have been tested successfully in monkeys, and human trials are imminent, US...

Inflammation and a build-up of fibrous tissue in the ovary as it ages is behind the drop in fertility that women...