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Eight months after NASA's New Horizons spacecraft's historic fly-by of Pluto, new data reveals startling links between Pluto, Charon, their four smaller satellites, and the space environment that surrounds them

Xenonucleic acids have been folded into stable 3D structures, which may help us deliver drugs to where they are needed in the body

The decoupling of industrial carbon dioxide emissions from economic growth for the second year running hints that peak emissions might not be too far away

The breakthrough could produce new cancer therapies, aid infertility and help us to understand why we reproduce sexually

The US Food and Drug Administration has provisionally ruled that using modified mosquitos to cut the wider population is not expected to have adverse effects

A study of a million people going back to 1670 shows that selection is still weeding out bad mutations and helping us avoid mutational meltdown

Rat brains quickly adapted to use data from four infrared sensors, allowing them to "see" in the dark and paving the way for augmenting the human brain

UK chancellor George Osborne has come under fire for cutting taxes on profits from exploiting North Sea fossil fuels