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Male wasps release specific chemicals which attract females and allow mating between compatible animals.

The mystery of itching is unravelled as itch specific nerve cells are identified by scientists.

Cutting edge optical techniques enable researchers to image the brains of mice, in real time, using tiny lenses called...

Psychoactive drugs can get into rivers in biologically relevant concentrations and may be altering the way that fish...

Synthetic biology is allowing drugs companies to quickly produce tonnes of a precursor to a malarial drug

Age related decline in the quality and quantity of a woman's eggs may be linked to problems with a vital DNA...

Since their discovery cosmic rays have been a mystery. Now, an orbiting gamma-ray telescope has managed to identify...

A group of US and Chinese researchers have developed a generator that can convert footsteps into electrical power...

Soft robots can be simple and cheap but incredibly agile: powered by explosions, they can leap at least 30 times their...

And finally, enormous library archives of magnetic tape or other media could one day be a thing of the past if a new...

As we approach Valentine’s day, much is made of the difference between the behaviour of men’s and women’s hearts in the...

Writing in the journal Science, German researchers have revealed a previously unknown genetic route to melanoma - the...

Still glowing from one of the scientific discoveries of the decade - the Higgs boson - the Large Hadron Collider at...

"Migraineurs" experiencing regular disabling headaches might find relief in a daily dose of electricity.

New research shows that the perception of beauty has its own region of the brain...

A dose of dirt might be what the doctor ordered for a healthy immune system, new research has shown.

Salmon form a mental map of the Earth's magnetic field which they use to relocate the river in which they were...

A group of Korean researchers have produced flexible films of thermoelectric material that can generate electricity...

A team led by Paul Renne at the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California have shed new light on the asteroid impact...

The resolution of magnetic resonance imaging could be about to go up several notches thanks to a new, nanoscale imaging...

A rock unearthed in Brazil is the fossilised faeces of a fish from a quarter of a billion years ago, and it contains...

In a move that will make TB easier to treat, scientists have discovered a hidden hang-out used by the bacterium to...

Studying a substance produced by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1) has revealed a powerful new therapeutic anti-...