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Bacterial antibiotic resistance genes have been discovered in soil frozen for over 30,000 years, Canadian scientists...

The Black Death, which killed a third of Europe's population in the middle ages, was caused by a now-extinct...

Exposure to probiotic bacteria can alter brain chemistry and calm anxiety responses, new research has revealed. Mice...

Whilst haute cuisine would appear to be a modern human trait, new research suggests that the art of cooking could well...

A fly-infecting bacterium can prevent mosquitoes from carrying the potentially deadly dengue virus, Australian...

Research suggests that early hominids of the species <i>Homo erectus</i>, which lived between 1.8 and 1.5...

The route that the deadly ebola virus uses to invade human cells, together with several potential drugs that can block...

Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered how coffee spills evaporate to leave hollow circular...

Solar seismology may improve space weather forecasts...

Diamonds have been found in candle flames...

The combination of an artificial chromosome and a specialised kind of stem cell has enabled scientists to reverse...

Animals overheated by climate change are heading uphill and away from the equator, new research has shown.

Scientists have developed a technique for finding new ways to treat existing diseases using drugs that are already in...

Climate change is causing species to shift their distributions up to three times faster than previously thought,...

Synthesised derivatives of a compound extracted from ginseng appear to reduce the destructive side-effects of cancer...

Scientists have discovered that the altruistic behaviour of European Paper wasps, <i>Polistes dominulus</i...

It's not just humans that create market economies, exchanging one set of goods for another, plants and fungi also...

For the first time, scientists have used genetic engineering to reprogramme immune cells to successfully eliminate...

Hydrothermal vent mussels have been found to host hydrogen-powered bacteria in their gills.

Scientists at the German Research Center for Environmental Health have proposed that treatments for certain diseases...

The Atlantic cod genome reveals a unique immune system...

The development of spermless male <i>Anopheles</i> mosquitoes could prove a valuable weapon in the fight...

Nasa has launched 3 lego men on their way to Jupiter

A paper published in this week's issue of the Journal Nature presents evidence that the Earth might once have had...