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North Korea claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb, a weapon more powerful than the atomic bombs that devastated the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima during World War II. Here's how they differ.

Scientists have successfully converted human skin cells into fully-functional pancreatic cells. The new cells produced insulin in response to changes in glucose levels, and, when transplanted into mice, the cells protect...

Once the three-billion-letter-long human genome was sequenced, we rushed into a new "omics" era of biological research.

The remains of the fortress were uncovered on a site that will house an apartment high-rise. The builder will integrate the ancient site into the basement of the new structure for residents and visitors.

Sharks may use their keen sense of smell to navigate the vast ocean, a new study finds.

Leopard sharks may use smell to help them navigate the ocean, a new study finds.

Ripe for colonisation ONE of astronomy's biggest changes of perspective in recent years has been the realisation that planets are abundant in the cosmos. But not everywhere. Collections of stars called globular clusters ...

As people around the world prepared for the excitement of New Years Eve and the fireworks that often accompany the stroke of midnight, fireworks of a different kind were taking place at a laboratory in Berlin.Nanoparticl...

New research shows how bacterial enzymes team up to attack lignin. The findings could lead to more efficient processes for creating biofuels from wood, grass and agricultural waste, say scientists.

A new engineered version of the gene-editing CRISPR-Cas9 nuclease appears to robustly abolish the unwanted, off-target DNA breaks that are a significant current limitation of the technology, reducing them to undetectable...

When robots were still largely the domain of science fiction, their most common shape was human (more or less)--two legs, two arms, one head. Now that we've actually begun building...

We've been too quick to dismiss globular clusters of old stars as hosts of life. Old, interstellar extraterrestrials could exist there

Scientists have recreated an elusive form of the material that makes up much of the giant planets in our solar system, and the sun.

Dubbed the "sweet tooth hormone", FGF21 reduced how much sugar and alcohol monkeys wanted to consume

El Niño and Californian storms, Volkswagen in court, UK doctors strike and more

Our failure to spot moons in other solar systems may be because of a gravitational dance that wrecks moons as their planets edge towards their star

Findings that vaping damages cells made headlines last week, but the real message of the study was the opposite of what was mostly reported

After the UK was hit by three storms in quick succession, everyone wants to know if climate change is to blame. But is it the right question?

Wild animals might buy themselves time to adapt to climate change by making epigenetic changes to regulate temperature, and passing improvements on to offspring

Nearly two-thirds of the greenhouse gases produced in feeding the UK are now released abroad, with 18 per cent released in South America

A £300,000 donation may lead to 250,000 square kilometres of ocean off the coast of the island of Ascension being protected from unsustainable fishing

Housing developing embryos in a device inserted into the vagina instead of a lab incubator gives similar success rates to conventional IVF, but could cost less