The University of Oxford has just launched a Phase 1 trial to test a new vaccine against a very old...
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Venom’s usually the stuff of nightmares. Animals that wield it send instinctive shivers down our spines. But scientists are teasing...
New life quite literally sparks into being, at least under fluorescence microscopy. That moment when sperm touches egg, billions of...
In a time rife with disasters, when more people than ever can find an audience online, conspiracy theories seem to...
Within the depths of a Malaysian rainforest’s shadows an astonishingly plant, lacking sunlight-eating leaves, bizarrely blooms. This small, otherworldly growth,...
The most complex life forms ever developed entirely in Petri dishes can pump blood through tiny beating hearts, gradually growing...
Within the remains of 890-million-year-old microbial reefs – a world that was dominated by bacteria and algae – lie possible...
Like the start of a horror movie, ancient creatures are emerging from the cold storage of now-melting permafrost: from incredibly...
In what’s probably the most dramatic mass extinction in Earth’s history, an asteroid collided with our planet 66 million years...
Songbirds are mysteriously dying across the mid-Atlantic region of the USA. Many have been discovered ill with eye swelling and...
A new study suggests that the extra time being pampered by their humans during lockdowns has made many cats appear...
Camels have an incredible ability to survive weeks without taking even a sip of water. Now, we have a better...
