Feeding rats edible microbeads designed to absorb fat helps them lose weight. One day the beads could be used in human foods and drinks to prevent or treat obesity in people.

Previous research in macaques suggests that part of the brain reorganises itself when a limb is removed, but now a study in people has turned that idea on its head ...

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A reader explains the adaptations that let squirrels make this gravity-defying manoeuvre - which a cat could only dream of ...

A new formulation of cement reflects and emits heat more effectively than normal Portland cement, so it stays much cooler on ...

A billion or so years into its evolution, the icy dwarf planet Ceres may have had the right conditions to sustain life, which ...

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His target here is a real plan from 1983, during the cold war, for a snack bar that doubles as a fallout shelter. It is all ...

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Free and unimpeded internet access is no longer a convenience or a luxury. It is high time it was made a human right ...

Rearing our unusually underdeveloped young may account for the evolution of language. Michael Marshall is intrigued, but ...

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