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Crickets living on the tropical paradise of Hawaii have lost their chirp, and researchers have figured out why.

Fishing boats are acting as the marine equivalent of fast food outlets for some seabirds!

Foetal cells transplanted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s disease survive and function for decades new research has...

Koalas keep their cool by hugging trees, new research has shown.

A massive planet twice the size and 17 times the mass of Earth has been announced by scientists at NASA.

This week, the ‘Godfather of ecstasy’,who synthesised and tested over 200 psychoactive substances, died peacefully in...

This week, a farm worker in Argentina stumbled upon a bone belonging to the largest dinosaur to have ever walked the...

This week an explosion and fire in a mine in Turkey claimed almost three hundred lives. But why are explosions such a...

This week the Royal College of Physicians criticised the standard of asthma care in the UK. Here's your Quick Fire...

A new pair of artificial DNA letters have been engineered into bacteria by US scientists.

Researchers have created cloned human embryonic stem cells from adult cells for the first time, according to a report...

A new study suggests a reason why men may have shorter average lifespans than women - it could be down to misplaced Y...

Researchers at Cambridge University have made a step forward in understanding - and maybe tackling - a rare accelerated...

How to grow human skin from stem cells has been discovered by UK scientists.

Humans give off sex-specific smells that affect the way we think about each other.

An all-in-one DNA editing kit capable of repairing genetic mistakes in cells has been developed by scientists in...

This week, a teenage boy survived the 5 hour flight from California to Hawaii, in the wheel well of a plane. How...

Australian scientists have used cochlear implants to deliver hearing-restoring gene therapy treatments to the inner ear.

Corals can adapt to tolerate higher ocean temperatures that could accompany climate change, scientists have shown.

This week, a British pet dog has been cloned in Korea. But can a clone ever be man's best friend?

A bug called heartbleed in the software behind most of the internet may have been leaking data out to the world.

Tests comparing Stradivari with modern-made violins failed to find any sonic advantage of the celebrated Strad...

Replacement vaginas have been grown in the dish and implanted into four women with congenital absence of the vagina and...

A computer has come up with the best way to recover from jetlag, according to new research.