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A study into Mexican fish has found that those evolved to living in caves save energy by not having eyes.

To help understand what goes on in the mind of man's best friend, five hundred dogs have been recruited as the...

Antibacterial vegetables capable of blitzing dangerous E. coli infections have been bred by scientists in Germany.

A cave crammed with fossil remains of a previously undiscovered human ancestor suggests that these primitive people...

Impatient physicists in Durham are floating a huge balloon- mounted telescope out of the Earth's atmosphere in...

Origami has been the inspiration for a new and innovative way to create structures that are both stiff and flexible...

A blood test can be used to detect a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer's...

The secret to preventing allergies, it turns out, is taking a deep breath of farm air.

A 460 million year old fossil of the oldest and largest species of marine scorpion has been discovered, measuring...

Previously unseen interaction between beams of light could yield a breakthrough for quantum computing...

Depth of fishing is key to sustainability, not the size of catch says new research...

Scientists thought language was processed in one side of the brain, until they studied whistled languages…

Roads, and their environmental impacts, often have negative impacts on wildlife, air quality and climate change but...

Drones bad for black bears...

The contrasting pattern on zebras may have a different purpose to what we originally thought...

Five hundred year old graffiti provides clues about how society was impacted by climate change.

A colour changing polymer may soon be used to indicate head injuries. This is important for both military and...

A chemical signal that triggers regeneration of tissues has been revealed...

Chicken, or egg: how one of the first complex lifeforms on Earth reproduced has been unearthed by UK scientists.

Why different animals have differently-shaped pupils has now been revealed...

Bonobos can communicate like human babies, using sounds that have a meaning dependent on context, but which is not...

Even if we could remove large volumes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, our marine life may still be in danger...

The microbes living in the intestine can contribute to the symptoms of anxiety and depression, a new study has revealed...

The earliest evidence of the Earth's magnetic field has been uncovered in Australian rock samples dating back 4.4...