A method to prepare important fluorine-containing chemicals directly from the mineral...
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30 July 2012
A commonly-prescribed heart drug also has powerful anti-cancer actions, scientists have discovered...
30 July 2012
Small protein molecules that can selectively penetrate cancer cells but leave healthy tissue untouched have been...
15 July 2012
Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope in Chile believe they have made the first ever observations of galaxies that...
15 July 2012
Researchers this week have found the very cells that make up the internal compass of migratory animals. These cells are...
15 July 2012
The claim that people tend to look in one direction - up and to the left - when they are being honest, and a different...
12 July 2012
Altering the activity of the body clock and might hold the key to a new treatment for diabetes...
10 July 2012
Plant researchers have discovered a genetic tweak to improve the taste of shop-bought tomatoes
10 July 2012
New research led by Jordi Garcia-Fernández and Manuel Irimia at the University of Barcelona and published in the...
10 July 2012
An international team of scientists have discovered a new gene in the flu virus, despite it being 30 years since the...
09 July 2012
A way in which cells can sense magnetic fields has been revealed in trout and might also hold the key to the human...
09 July 2012
Investing vaccines and antibiotics in a wrapping of silk is a safe alternative to refrigeration, scientists have...
08 July 2012
A huge, hot dusty disc around a Sun-like star seems to have vanished before our very eyes, and its disappearance cannot...
08 July 2012
Sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis, or CF, have lower pH in their airways and this impairs their ability to kill bacteria,...
05 July 2012
A nanoscale solution to unclogging blocked blood vessels with clot-dissolving drugs has been revealed by scientists...
04 July 2012
The Cassini spacecraft has made measurements of how much Saturn's moon Titan changes shape each time it circles...
02 July 2012
Craters around the Moon's south pole may lack the rich reservoirs of water ice and other volatiles that have been...
01 July 2012
How can you communicate if you can’t move a muscle? This is the situation for people with ‘locked-in syndrome’ - but a...
01 July 2012
A new gene in the flu genome could explain why some strains are killers.
28 June 2012
Heart attacks and strokes are much more common in people who have already suffered a previous vascular event.
28 June 2012
Make no bones about it, dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new research has revealed.
24 June 2012
Scientists have uncovered a new way that carnivorous plants catch prey, using rain power to help them.