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It sounds like the plot from a science fiction film: A scientist takes a kidney from a human fetus, implants it in a rat and allows the organ to grow. But researchers in a new study have done exactly that, in the hopes t...

Calcium phosphate (CaP) based materials have long been popular choices for a range of medical applications including bone replacement and drug delivery. However, recent studies indicate a need for a closer look at how ce...

Environmental factors such as diet may alter the expression of genes to cause, and reverse diabetes, new research finds.

A lavish Alexander the Great-era tomb found in Amphipolis, Greece, holds the skeletal remains of at least five people.

Cities like Boston are slurping up data from private companies about how we live - and using it to improve services and transport

A developer has knocked over the Westinghouse atom smasher east of Pittsburgh but plans to preserve the structure no matter what happens to the property it was on.

IN NOVEMBER the public's imagination was briefly caught by the adventures of a plucky little spacecraft called Philae. This craft, the pup of a mother ship known as Rosetta, made a bouncy landing onto the surface of come...

Linked to all manner of illness and an eco-villain too - meat has an image problem. But the evidence says that smart diners can welcome it back to the menu (full text available to subscribers)

Using lasers, scientists created a new material that makes water bounce straight off it. The super-repellent surface could be used for everything from preventing icing on airplane wings to creating self-cleaning latrines...

A new software program combines your schedule and preferences with the best route to get you where you need to go.

New particles that researchers call "nanostars" can enter cancer cells and then illuminate them when struck by a laser, new research shows. The technique could be used to better see the outlines of patients' tumors, rese...

A painting of a black square shown in Russia 100 years ago broke new ground, now revisited by an exhibition in London and a carbon nanotube take on the original

"It's a result of human-induced global warming," says NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Steven Pawson referring to recently released data. Pawson notes how the cold East Coast winter and El Nino event had little effect ...

Inspired by a programme in Detroit, a British plan aims to reduce the number of suicides to zero among people treated by the National Health Service

The ominous hands of the Doomsday Clock have been fixed at 5 minutes to midnight for the past three years. But they could move tomorrow.

The INDIGO-DataCloud project, with the objective of developing a new CLOUD software platform for the scientific community, has been approved by the European Commission within the scope of Horizon 2020. 26 institutions an...

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Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a new technique to generate more powerful, more energy efficient and low-cost pulsed lasers.

A video wall can tell when fish are stolen from the ocean in milliseconds by tracking ships and the species they are allowed to catch

Individual protons and neutrons in atomic nuclei turn out not to behave according to the predictions made by existing theoretical models. This surprising conclusion, reached by an international team of physicists includi...

Melting glaciers pose another threat beyond sea level rise. They will dump massive amounts of organic carbon into the world's oceans, altering ecosystems.

Scientists have created a laser-etched form of metal that makes water bounce off straight off it, and could be used in airplane wing coatings and keeping surfaces bacteria-free.