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Scientists have taken a major step towards developing a blood test that could identify millions of people who spread tuberculosis…
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Deep-water corals in the Gulf of Mexico are still struggling to recover from the devastating Deepwater Horizon oil spill in…
Tiny external structures in the wax coating of blueberries give them their blue colour, researchers at the University of Bristol…
As the HIV virus glides up outside a human cell to dock and possibly inject its deadly cargo of genetic…
Compared to robots, human bodies are flexible, capable of fine movements, and can convert energy efficiently into movement. Drawing inspiration…
A pair of scientists at Google DeepMind, the Alphabet artificial intelligence division, have been talking with investors about forming an…
Southern Africa contains the vast majority of the world's remaining populations of both black and white rhinoceroses (80% and 92%,…