Research
An ingredient commonly found in toothpaste could be employed as an anti-malarial drug against strains of malaria parasite that have grown resistant to one of...
Researchers have shown for the first time how children can inherit a severe – potentially fatal – mitochondrial disease from a healthy mother. The study,...
Astronomers have looked back to a time soon after the Big Bang, and have discovered swirling gas in some of the earliest galaxies to have...
A new design of algae-powered fuel cells that is five times more efficient than existing plant and algal models, as well as being potentially more...
Recent advances in brain imaging have enabled scientists to show for the first time that a key protein which causes nerve cell death spreads throughout...
Direct genetic traces of the earliest Native Americans have been identified for the first time in a new study. The genetic evidence suggests that people...
A new and relatively simple technique for mapping the wiring of the brain has shown a correlation between how well connected an individual’s brain regions...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge have taken a peek into the secretive domain of quantum mechanics. In a theoretical paper published in the...
Big data study of global biodiversity shows ineffective national governance is a better indicator of species decline than any other measure of “anthropogenic impact”. Even...
It is theoretically possible that habitable planets exist around pulsars - spinning neutron stars that emit short, quick pulses of radiation. According to new research,...
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