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A new way of delsalinating and cleaning water has been developed electrically rather than using hight pressure or...

Research looking at the shape of the H1N1 pandemic flu virus has revealed why seasonal flu vaccines don't offer...

Cancer is a disease caused by gene faults and increasingly, researchers are working out how to use these faults to our...

RNAi is a powerful technique used to switch off DNA polymerases in cancer cells grown in the lab. But until now we...

Scientists have found a new way to track down criminals - using the unique collections of bacteria they leave behind on...

Scientists have found a way to use mosquitoes as mobile vaccinating machines!

Scientists have confirmed that animals that live where the sun don't shine have evolved not to use their body...

Pushing a high definition TV screen up to the side of an octopus’s aquarium tank and showing them images of crabs and...

Cambridge researchers have identified gene sequences that make some people feel more pain.

Eyeless scorpions living in deep inside caves in Mexico have returned to light and regained the ability to see, showing...

Researchers have discovered a key reason why some people are susceptible to TB and others aren’t. Publishing in the...

Scientists have discovered a chemical signature that indicates when a bowel cancer has spread.

A new study has shown that a blast from a powerful magnet can knock out the symptoms of a migraine.

Scientists have found evidence for a magnetic field around the Earth at least 250 million years earlier than previously...

Millions of tonnes of methane locked up beneath the shoreline of Siberia are becoming unstable and escaping into the...

This week archaeologists have described the discovery of some of the earliest evidence for advanced human thought....

One quarter of the star clusters in our galaxy may, in fact, be aliens, according to a paper in Monthly Notices of the...

Healthy coral reefs come packed with colourful fish and a new study reveals that the some fish send out private...

New fossil evidence suggests there were gigantic sharks lurking in Cretaceous seas, around 90 million years ago, but...

Researchers in Oxford and California have found a way to stop female mosquitoes from growing wings, keeping them...

Scientists have produced a sugar sarcophagus to keep viral vaccines viable without refrigeration.

Scientists have discovered a new, much more sensitive way to detect cancers and follow their response to therapy as...

Scientists have discovered that cells use the biochemical equivalent of a chemical dimmer switch to control their...

Researchers in Australia have managed to use cotton thread and sewing needles to stitch together a “lab-on-a-chip” –...