Biology
Ancient cave girl genome could crack Man's genetic puzzle
Boffins pore over 500GB of data plastered online
8 Feb 17:09
Greenpeace releases meaningless 'Cool IT' rankings
Analysis Hippies' 'leaderboard' apparently made using dartboard
8 Feb 12:25
Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake
Will boffins find prehistoric life - or secret Nazi files?
8 Feb 11:33
Chilli crab scoffing boffins build anti-cancer claw robot
New stomach tumour busting gadget inspired by top Asian nosh
7 Feb 10:22
Prehistoric cricket love songs recreated for your listening pleasure
Throbbing Jurassic passion returns in boffin-mungous feat
7 Feb 08:54
Boffins find prehistoric croc species with 'mate-attracting' skin helmet
'Shieldcrocs' mingled with dinosaurs
6 Feb 10:17
JEDI alliance: Jellyfish overlords won't rule Earth after all
Blancmange invader threat turns out to be, erm, trifling
2 Feb 11:13
Japan takes second shot at extraterrestrial sampling with Hayabusa 2
Damp asteroid 1999 JU3 may hold clues to Earth’s life
1 Feb 21:00
Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH
New study reveals fatal consequences of mock-swill habit
1 Feb 16:31
Berkeley boffins crack brain wave code
Electrical signals used to recreate sound heard by test subjects
1 Feb 12:21
Serial killer PYTHONS stalk Florida's Everglades
Rapacious reptiles scoff mammal population
1 Feb 11:33
iPhone doc will detect cancer, diabetes - boffins
Touch screen literally meets bleeding-edge science
31 Jan 14:22
NHS unfurls condom app – for iPhone-toting teens
Droid lovers will have to source their own love gloves
31 Jan 10:39
Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov
Ministers 'irrational' on depression-busting hallucinogen
25 Jan 15:27
iPad users 'risk shoulder pain', say US gov, Microsoft boffins
Too much time fondling your slab will leave you stiff
25 Jan 12:47
Dinosaurs were super mums, nest find proves
Cold-blooded reptiles showed caring side - bone boffins
24 Jan 11:09
Alcohol DOUBLES LIFESPAN, helps resist stress
We're filing this from the pub, naturally
20 Jan 17:53
Ancient tulip-like stomach-onna-stick creatures found in Rockies
Waving anus-tipped filter flowers covered Cambrian sea bottom
20 Jan 13:07
American search team fails to find women's G-spot
Dig finds no evidence for earth-moving equipment
20 Jan 11:22
Boffins dig up prehistoric popcorn in Peru
Bit soggy now: Man wolfed down treat 6,700 years ago
19 Jan 09:42
Pollution-gobbling molecules in global warming SMACKDOWN
Boffins: Newly observed particles scrub our filthy air
16 Jan 10:17
Tiny frog claimed as smallest vertebrate ever
Mine's smaller, yells irate ichthyologist*
13 Jan 10:50
Boffins hack evolution, create SUPERSOLDIER ANTS
Genetic prestidigitation could engineer new species
7 Jan 00:30
World's first mixed-embryo rhesus monkeys born in US
Normal, healthy chimeric primates created during stem cell research
6 Jan 12:42
Boffins glue self-righting ROBO-VELOCIRAPTOR tail to car
Leaping lizards inspire super stable search bots
5 Jan 11:05
Vomit virus drives punters to NHS Choices over Christmas
NHS Choices attracted 56% more users, many on their mobes
5 Jan 08:03
Boffins drill into human language by terrifying chimps with vipers
Primates holler only if friends are unaware of snakes
30 Dec 12:29
Three more 'nauts prepare for space station housewarming
Crew blasts off tomorrow in time for weightless Xmas
20 Dec 11:42
Bumblebee boffins rediscover long-vanished species
Rare US insect had not been seen since 1956
6 Dec 12:39
Microsoft researchers build spam filter for HIV
Turns out spammers behave a lot like deadly virus...
6 Dec 11:14
UK.gov to require YOU to opt out of data-sharing plan with drug firms
Confidential NHS records to be 'opened up'
6 Dec 10:44
NASA confirms first Earth candidate in habitable zone
Kepler finds Earth 2.0 just 600 light years away
5 Dec 17:22
Japan, Russia in plan for elephant to birth CLONE MAMMOTH
Dumbo surrogate crucial to Pleistocene Park scheme
5 Dec 12:46
UK cops seek boffins to build handheld DNA sniffer kit
Just zoom and enhance - like CSI on the telly
2 Dec 14:22
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