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Cable-like batteries which can be tied into a knot have been developed in Korea...

A router which auto-corrects its position, allowing you to cut precision shapes by hand, has been built by researchers...

Soil-dwelling bacteria are the source of the antibiotic resistance genes that are making many infections hard to treat...

A gene responsible for affecting how the majority of mammals move has been revealed by studying a group of Icelandic...

Nanoparticles in cosmetics and exhaust fumes can accumulate in plants and stunt growth, scientists have warned...

Scientists have identified a substance in semen that triggers ovulation in some species and could also affect human...

Ageist as it is, older fathers are deleterious to their offspring's DNA, placing them at increased risk of mental...

This week, a team in Barcelona have announced that they have signed a launch service contract for a Chinese rocket to...

Is there an upper limit to just how massive a star can be...

Sick zebra finches pretend to be well if their buddies are around, according to scientists from the University of...

A paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society this week reports a detection of dark matter...

Scientists at Tel Aviv University have discovered and analysed some remarkable stone age tools that they say are the...

Electrical brain stimulation triggered by the impending onset of a seizure could be used to prevent epileptic attacks,...

Using short, self-assembling bio-degradable protein nanofibres impregnated with a blood-vessel growth factor,...

A pair of studies published in the journal Nature Genetics unveil gene faults lying behind two rare but debilitating...

A new study in PLoS Genetics has thrown fuel onto a controversial debate in the field of fertility research - the...

Writing in the journal Nature Medicine this month, Dr Eva Jimenez-Mateos and her team of neuroscientists at the Royal...

A team at the Heart Institute at San Diego State University have discovered that damaged heart tissue from older...

The way elephants make the low-frequency rumbles they use to communicate over long distances has been revealed by...

For the first time scientists have confirmed the existence of tumour stem cells that underpin the proliferation and...

A paper published in Nature last week has discovered that planetary systems containing so-called hot Jupiters are...

The journal Science have produced a special issue dedicated to the subject of black hole research, and we look at what...

Massive landslides on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, as studied by the Cassini mission, can be "an excellent laboratory...

Despite thinking of Earth as a “Blue Planet”, models of solar system formation suggest Earth should be much wetter than...