The skeleton of King Richard III, which was found beneath a car park more than a decade ago, has well-preserved teeth, ...

The first ever transplantation of a pig's liver into a living person helps us better understand how animal organs can be used ...

Older men are more likely to pass on disease-causing mutations to their children because of the faster growth of mutant cells ...

Making electrons flow like a liquid is difficult, but inside graphene researchers forced them to move so fast that they ...

The impact that carved out the South Pole-Aitken basin on the moon appears to have come from the north, not the south as ...

Why do dogs bring back a stick if you throw it? If I were a dog, I would say to my owner: you threw it, you fetch it ...

A memory chip just 10 atoms thick has been tested in a lab and integrated into conventional chips, demonstrating a technology ...

Although the cute voices we use when speaking to babies and pets sound similar, they are actually quite different, explain ...

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Brian Cory Dobbs's documentary promotes the baseless idea that Mars was once inhabited by an advanced civilisation. But there ...

Immunologist Daniel Davis wants to eradicate long-held myths and replace them with wonder at the complexity of the body’s ...

I really enjoyed Horizon: Secrets of the brain on BBC iPlayer. Presented by physicist Jim Al-Khalili (pictured), the two-part ...