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Which weighs more: a kilo of cheese or a kilo of Vegemite? Surprisingly, the answer depends on where they come from.

Unlike prescription drugs, diet supplements are not required to undergo safety testing or FDA approval before they are marketed to consumers, researchers say.

As nurse Pauline Cafferkey lies critically ill nine months after recovering from Ebola, evidence is building that the virus can re-emerge in survivors

Time for a little lie down ELECTRIC lighting, television, the internet and caffeine all get blamed for reducing the amount of time people sleep compared with the days before such luxuries existed. Such alleged sleep depr...

A cluster of baby duck-billed dinosaurs was uncovered in a slab of rock from a fossil-rich part of Mongolia known as "Dragon's Tomb."

Teeth from a cave in China suggest that modern humans lived in Asia tens of thousands of years before they reached Europe, researchers say. The finding sheds light on the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa and acros...

Early spring, antibiotics in livestock, Indian pharmacy strike and more

Talk of using DNA to determine whether someone is gay misunderstands efforts to explain human variation, says Dean Hamer, who published the first evidence for a genetic predisposition to homosexuality

Comparing DNA extracted from an ancient Ethiopian skeleton with modern examples shows some of our ancestors migrated back to Africa from Eurasia 3000 years ago

Pauline Cafferkey has been isolated after seeking medical help last week, while 58 people she recently came into contact with are under surveillance

CubeSats built from off-the-shelf parts can transform space exploration, as long as we can steer them. An ionic liquid propulsion system is a big step forward

Many of the gas giant planets we've seen orbiting other stars are up to twice as large as theory says they should be. A new class of planets could explain why

The world's coral reefs are in the midst of a mass die off - a "white death" spanning the globe. New Scientist looks at why understanding what's happening is essential

The UK has invested £270 million in quantum technologies - now the researchers racing to bring their tech to the real world have a plan to put it in your hands

Tool use seemed so rare in squirrel monkeys that they were considered incapable of such feats, now they've been seen carrying food and water in containers

A peptide that over-excites neurons controlling facial feeling is to blame for migraines - so drugs that constrict blood vessels won't work

Independent panel of UK scientists says evidence supports the use of flu drugs for severely ill people in pandemics, which implies that stockpiles make sense

Some of the ants in Costa Rican nests devote their lives to stealing from neighbours, which suggests a distinct behavioural caste

Some bacteria turn mercury into a neurotoxin called methylmercury that accumulates in the food we eat. Now we know where those bacteria are found

Astronomer Geoff Marcy of the University of California, Berkeley, has been found to have violated his institution's sexual harassment policy during a series of incidents

Some 10 million Americans' homes will be submerged by rising seas, even under optimistic scenarios for slashing greenhouse gas emissions

Including 31,000 neurons and their 37 million synapses, a digital recreation of a chunk of rat brain is already giving clues as to how the real thing works