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The world's oldest tackle, together with evidence of deep-sea fishing 40,000 years ago, has been unearthed in East...

A way to boost the effectiveness of radiotherapy and protect patients and even astronauts from the effects of radiation...

Over 32, 000 neuroscientists, from around the world, converged in Washington, DC, this week for the 2011 Society for...

In September results indicating that neutrinos travel faster than the speed of light were released, this week the same...

American scientists are brewing trees more effectively than ever before to make fuel for your car.

Two gas clouds containing pristine samples of the gas spawned by the Big Bang has been spotted by astronomers.

A fat-reducing drug that can reverse obesity in monkeys has been successfully tested by US scientists...

A group of researchers from Columbia University publishing in the journal Environmental Research Letters have found...

Researchers have found that the strain of HIV virus most common in the genital tract of a chronically infected person...

A new study has shown that some squid and octopus species are able to shift their colouration between being transparent...

A new way of detecting ciguatera, offers hope of combating this debilitating disease caught by eating infected fish.

Mini ecosystems clinging to sea turtle shells are more diverse in the Atlantic compared to the Pacific

Conflict between killer whales and salmon highlight the importance of an ecosystems approach to conservation.

Deletion of two regulatory genes allows damaged neurons to grow back in a sustained way. This could point the way to...

Kat Arney offers a roundup of the latest news, and what to expect from the National Cancer Research Institute's...

Models suggest the Milky Way should have far more dwarf galaxies orbiting it than we see - known as the the "...

November will see the launch of two new missions to Mars - Phobos Grunt and the Mars Science Laboratory.

Dr Robert Massey brings us up to date with what's been happening at the Royal Astronomical Society...

IQ – a measure of a person’s general intellectual ability - is not fixed as we first thought, but instead changes as we...

Drugs targeting herpes simplex virus (HSV), the agent that causes cold sores, might also abate Alzheimer's, new...

Seaweeds, also known as macroalgae, can unleash a chemical arsenal toxic to corals, scientists have found.

A patient receiving treatment for lymphoma simultaenously recovered from chronic fatigue syndrome, revealing a novel...

We are what we eat, but what about when what we eat takes over?

How increasing our understanding of epigenetics may help plant breeders make informed decisions about the best ways to...