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One of the diseases thought of as an affliction of modern life, atherosclerosis, was actually around in people...

Researchers are now tracking online searches to find evidence for possible side effects to prescription drugs..

11,300-year data set shows global temperature will soon be setting records...

Coffee and citrus plants lace their nectar with caffeine to boost bee pollination rates, new research has revealed.

Deep brain stimulation may offer a last resort treatment for Anorexia sufferers.

Mice given grafts of human brain cells showed enhanced cognitive abilities...

Flame retardant DNA

Researchers at the US Marine Biological Laboratory have made some surprising discoveries after decoding the genome of...

Scientists in the US have made a major step forward in understanding how the information in our DNA is read

Scientists at Loyola University Chicago have developed a modified protein that could treat vitiligo

It has been a busy week for open access...

Scientists have produced a bendy battery that can stretch elastically to three times its normal length without...

A team of US scientists have developed a flexible battery than can be stretched to three times its size without...

A new catalyst that can unleash the clean potential of hydrogen without the risk of explosion, has been developed by...

Hydrogen cars are limited by the problem of gas storage. Research into efficiently extracting hydrogen from methanol my...

Inspiration Mars, a private company founded by former space tourist Dennis Tito, hopes to send a manned craft to fly...

This month has seen the MARS2013 simulation underway in a desert in the Northern Sahara...

In utero MRI scans may be able to shed light on the development of child onset disorders such as Autism and ADHD...

A bone-repairing calcium-rich paste that also carries a fracture-healing gene-therapy DNA message has been developed in...

Mosquitoes may become less sensitive to a common repellent, DEET, after continued exposure...

Fruit flies protect their eggs by laying them in alcohol-laced fruit, but only when there are parasitic wasps around...

A new chemical mask can conceal nanoparticles from the immune system so they can operate therapeutically inside the...

A potent new flu drug that works by deactivating an enzyme called neuraminidase has been discovered by scientists in...

A way to encapsulate squads of enzymes inside a thin polymer shell resembling an organelle makes sequential reaction...