Foam heart could pump inside you just like the real thing
Researchers building soft robots out of flexible plastic and powered by air have now created a pumping artificial heart
Musicians’ brains fire symmetrically when they listen to music
Proficiency with a musical instrument doesn't just change the structure of the brain – it also changes the way we hear music
Surgical device repairs damaged still-beating heart with glue
A light-activated adhesive has been used to repair a hole in the heart of a living pig through a keyhole incision
Salty water seen flowing on Mars, not far from Curiosity rover
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds strongest evidence yet that there is liquid water on the surface fo the Red Planet, so there might also be life
Shell abandons oil exploration in Alaska but stays in the Arctic
The oil giant might have announced it is pulling out of drilling under the Chukchi Sea – but its ventures in Russian and Scandinavian Arctic continue
Paralysed man uses mind control to walk again
A device that monitors brain signals was hooked up to muscle-activating electrodes in the man's legs, enabling him to control his movement just by thinking about it
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Genes protecting smokers’ health one of many UK Biobank findings
Those with a long smoking habit and good health might have their genes to thank – one of many findings emerging from a vast genetic resource
Multiverses-in-a-box let us simulate the cosmos before we see it
As supercomputers improve, astronomers are starting to simulate what telescopes will see before they're even built
America’s oldest decapitated head reveals strange burial ritual
A 9000-year-old decapitated head discovered in South America is twice as old as previous finds, and suggests veneration of the dead by early hunter-gatherers
