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IN THE basement of Imperial College sits the London DNA Foundry. The word "foundry" calls forth images of liquid metal being poured into moulds--of the early phase of the Industrial Revolution, in other words. This found...

Apparently, there's a one-in-a-million chance of spotting the yellow mutant bird.

It's not a pretty situation.

A family tree of 13 million people has been built using data from an ancestry website, and it reveals when and why people started avoiding marrying close relations

Researchers have come up with a blueprint for a small and tunable device that can control the flow of light. Because it's much tinier than existing technology, the invention could help shrink optical equipment to the nan...

An artificial intelligence can write a caption for a picture a person is looking at without seeing the original image, but looking at a brain scan instead

Age related neurodegeneration may be delayed by preventing oxidative damage in a few neuron types, researchers report.

Does my smartphone make my nose look big? It might, according to researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Allen Institute researchers have produced a collection of computer generated models that accurately replicate cortical neuron activity.

The global environment is suffering from air pollution due to excess particulate matters, resulting in huge societal and economic costs. Air quality is usually characterized by the mass concentration of fine particulate ...

Down desolation road IT DOES not rain much in the Atacama desert. A 1,000km strip of land running along the Chilean coast, it is Earth's driest desert outside its poles. Average annual rainfall in certain parts can be as...

Your sweetness is my weakness GARDENERS know only too well how hard it is to keep on top of weeds, because hoeing and pulling them out is back-breaking work. With big fields to look after, most farmers turn to herbicides...

Researchers report concussions and TBI could increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease at an early age.

Our world consists mainly of particles built up of three quarks bound by gluons. The process of the sticking together of quarks, called hadronisation, is still poorly understood. Physicists from the Institute of Nuclear ...

Researchers at Oxford University have set a new speed record for the 'logic gates' that form the building blocks of quantum computing - a technology that could transform the way we process information.

A type of brainwave is associated with creativity, and a study of improvising musicians has found that the stronger your alpha waves, the better you play

A 7,000-year-old Native American ancestral burial site has turned up off the coast of Venice, Florida.

If you've ever taken an unflattering selfie, it's not you -- it's geometry.

Researchers report holding hands with a loved one causes brain waves to fall into sync. The more synchronized the brain waves between partners, the less pain a person will feel.

Last year, physicists at TU Darmstadt cast doubt on our current understanding of the interplay between electrons and atomic nuclei, and are now upping the ante by proposing a solution to this so-called "hyperfine puzzle....

There are growing calls for wider prohibition of dog collars that jolt pets with electricity to train them. About time, says Danny Chambers

The latest advance in a new type of optics aimed at improving microscopy started with a game of tennis three years ago.