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The 2015 award recognises scientists whose work led to the drugs ivermectin and artemisinin, which have improved the health of billions

Many member states have decided to opt out of growing GM crops approved by the EU, but a proposal to also ban imports of genetically modified fodder looks doomed

Evidence for the sudden collapse of Fogo volcano 73,000 years ago and a massive tsunami raises concern that such freak events are more frequent that thought

A sense of curiosity is helping robots to explore and understand ocean scenes, allowing them to seek out and investigate the weird and new

When a country such as Iran is wary of nuclear inspections, an experimental detector could help ensure that its reactors are not making plutonium for weapons

"Off-the-shelf" insulin-producing cells could be a simpler and potentially safer way to treat type 1 diabetes than using stem cells

New fossil evidence suggests human ancestors may have split from chimps as early as 10 million years ago, bringing fossil evidence in line with data from molecular clocks

Some 66 million years ago, the seismic energy from the Chicxulub impact may have set off dramatic lava flows from the Deccan traps, dooming the dinosaurs

A group of cyclists in a peloton behave like a collective organism, giving an accidental benefit to even the slowest riders – much like schooling fish

Targets for a 2020 space mission include our hellishly hot neighbour or a heavy metal asteroid called Psyche