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When an insect lands on a flytrap, the plant counts the number of times it is touched to trigger different stages of digestion  

A researcher has tracked down videos of L-dopa tests in Chilean miners in the 1960s that became the first successful treatment for Parkinson's disease

The brightest ever supernova was confirmed last week, but no one could explain it. Now a culprit has been found: a magnetar driven by an extremely massive star

Nowhere better illustrates the new global health emergency created by air pollution than my home city of Delhi, says Padmaparna Ghosh

The well-preserved bones of a juvenile meat-eating dinosaur found in Wales promise to reveal secrets about how Jurassic species diversified

A test that can distinguish between bacterial and viral infections could prevent unnecessary use of antibiotics that speeds the rise of drug resistance

Ten skeletons found near Lake Turkana in Kenya show signs of violent death in the oldest known incident of hunter-gatherer warfare, 10,000 years ago

Against a backdrop of wide-scale extinctions some animal species have survived a close shave with extinction and are recovering

Taking in natural beauty can improve our well-being, and now tests could show if virtual scenery benefits hospital patients and personnel at remote outposts

This year will see the first-ever "nanocar" race in France. We take a look at the competition – and where cars the size of molecules can take us in the future