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Researchers writing in the journal PNAS this week have come a little bit closer to understanding how the brain chooses...

The best way of making solar electricity cheaper is to get more electricity per square metre of panel. Now researchers...

A trick of the light looks set to assist drug squads in their attempts to crack down on smugglers who are dissolving...

Researchers this week have discovered a key step in the way in which nerve cells regenerate, which they hope they could...

Scientists have shown that some bacteria assemble their own virus-like particles to spread their genetic "know how...

Scientists in Germany have uncovered a previously overlooked aspect of the disease process that underlies the...

In a breakthrough that might also help to explain why amputees suffer phantom limb pain, scientists have hit the nail...

Now new results from a Cancer Research UK-funded team led by Professor Alison Lloyd at University College London have...

Malaria is responsible for over 1 million deaths a year, and the parasite that causes the majority of cases –Plasmodium...

Evidence has been found of a catastrophic period of bombardment on the Moon...

In a move that could hold the key to better drugs to beat a range of mood disorders including depression, French...

A selection of headlines from the British Science Festival 2010, held in the city of Birmingham...

Worsening light pollution is significantly affecting bird's breeding habits, a new study has revealed.

Stone-tipped arrows thought to be 64,000 years old have been found in the Sibundu Cave in South Africa. Lyn Wadley...

A paper published this week in the Astrophysical Journal presents the first direct observations of small asteroids in...

Parents accustomed to plotting their baby's height and weight on a growth chart might one day find themselves also...

A new model of future greenhouse gas emissions suggests that it's not too late to reverse predicted climate change...

Some evidence has been found of the fine structure constant... varying.

A new high voltage way to clean your solar cells with less water and elbow grease involved.

Green fuels, like bioethanol, produced by yeast fermentation of plant sugars can be used to cut greenhouse gas...

A molecular magic bullet could hold the key to selectively deleting cancer cells from the body, a new study has shown.

Male Great Bowerbirds use optical tricks commonly found in films and architecture to make themselves appear larger to...

American Samoa has taken a bold step towards helping the oceans by declaring a ban on plastic bags for 2011.