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Scientists have identified a number of fruitful vaccine targets capable of protecting against E. coli infections...

Pontius Pilate is probably the most famous person to have washed his hands of a problem, but new research suggests that...

Scientists have uncovered a clutch of new genes linked to eye colour.

The world is still losing biodiversity at an alarming rate despite world leaders promising in 2002 to cut the rate of...

A technique developed to take three dimensional, real time images of the retina is also useful for detecting evidence...

A group of colourful fish living on Caribbean coral reefs have shed light on how species evolve in the oceans.

An analysis of the genome of the Western Clawed Frog, Xenopus tropicalis. was published in the journal Science this...

This week researchers in an international team from Switzerland, the Czech Republic and the US have managed to measure...

Have you ever found that the advice to “sleep on it” turns out to be true, whether it's solving a problem or...

Stem cells research is a really exciting area of science, and one we often cover on the show. Now new research...

Researchers this week have presented, for the first time, a record of Asian Monsoon data stretching over 700 years. The...

One of the hottest areas of materials science is the development of composite materials that combine the useful...

Researchers have identified a protein that can carry blood-borne drugs deep into tumours, meaning lower doses of anti-...

Scientists have discovered how HIV penetrates the body to initiate infection by triggering epithelial cells to...

Bacteria inhabiting the intestines of Japanese sushi-eaters have picked up seaweed-digesting genes from marine microbes...

Suzanne Smrekar and colleagues have been studying Venus using an instrument on the ESA Venus Express mission and found...

A new drug has been developed for the treatment of hepatitis C, a infection linked to liver cirrhosis and cancer. Over...

This week astronomers have solved a long-running debate over the nature of the surface of our neighbour planet, Venus,...

A new species of early human has been described this week – Australopithecus sediba. And it looks like it’s a key...

Scientists have discovered a new cure for sleeping sickness, a fatal infection spread by the tsetse fly and linked to...

Scientists claim to have solved "the faint Sun paradox", which says that the Earth's temperatures have...

Geologists around the world have the electronic equivalent of a glass to the wall, listening to vibrations from...

A paper published in the journal science shows that pollution in Asia gets pushed up into the stratosphere by hitching...

A way of learning from snail shells to make stronger tougher materials