More evidence that life can exist under the harshest, most extreme conditions deep inside the earth suggests the expeditions on Mars or Jupiter's moon Europa could find teeming colonies of

Government scientists in Auckland, New Zealand have revealed the successful cloning of a calf from the last surviving female member of an ancient herd of short-horn cattle. It says the breakthrough

A cheap, effective technique to remove toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from contaminated soil has been developed in the US by scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee. The

Studies show that a crop pest may evolve resistance to a biological pesticide Bt toxin more rapidly than believed

How do you locate an object even with eyes closed?

The length of worms is determined by the hosts

A gene related to deafness has been discovered in a Costa Rican family that may help understand why

The absence of a mother's touch can severely affect the development of an infant's brain. Mary Carlson, psychologist and neuroscientist at the Havard Medical School, USA, says that the lack of

A team of researchers led by Ehud Ahissar of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, says that the brain always keeps track of changing frequencies of neurones like a Frequency

Male development is crucially dependent on the expression of a gene present on the Y cromosome