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Researchers have found that little grasshopper mice are resistant to the painful effects of the highly toxic venom of...

Scientists have discovered a gene variation responsible for fungal infections spreading through the body.

Researchers have found a gene that could help accelerate healing in older people.

Swiss scientists have made a step forward in understanding how resistance to HIV could be encoded within our own...

Sex has just got a bit more complicated – for bees, at least.

There's a lot of traffic on it's way to the little red planet right now. Why?

A new study indicates the antidepressant Prozac reverts the brain into a more flexible state reminiscent of the teenage...

Using videos posted on the Internet, a Czech team have reconstructed the path, and traced the origins of, the 2013...

Chimps use similar conceptual metaphors to the human "top of the tree" or "bottom of the pile" to...

Australian archaeologists have found part of a fossil from an ancient platypus that was a metre long.

Fresh insights into the development of cancers has been revealed by a new study...

Small molecule drugs could block tuberculosis entry into immune cells, exposing them to the immune system

International computer giant IBM has unveiled its vision for a "supercomputer in a sugarcube" powered by...

The direction in which a dog wags its tail tells other canines what it's thinking, new research has revealed.

A planet roughly the same size and with the same composition as the Earth has been discovered orbiting a distant start.

Bonfire Night is fast approaching: so what is the chemistry of fireworks?

What happened to the lady given a laboratory-grown trachea 5 years ago...?

The most distant galaxy yet discovered, dating from 700 million years after the Big Bang has been pinpointed by US...

Scientists have made smooth skin turn hairy using a new technique that might ultimately reverse baldness.

GM plants with high leaf oil content could transform farming, while reducing environmental damage

As a new Great British Bake Off champion is crowned, here's your quick fire science on baking...

The influenza virus bypasses defences by attacking immune memory cells that are an early warning system to prevent...

The legendary ape-like Himalayan monster, the yeti, may be nothing more than a type of bear...

The fundamental role of sleep might be to flush the brain of more than just unwanted thoughts, scientists have...