Effective cure for cancer 'will happen in five to 10 years'
Advances in genetics mean doctors will be able to prescribe drugs to treat each individual's unique form of cancer, turning the often deadly disease into a chronic, but treatable condition
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Scientists to march on the White House on Earth Day
Solidarity marches will be happening across the world
Chimpanzees overthrow, kill and then eat their tyrannical leader
The experienced anthropologist that led the study said she was left 'disturbed' by the behaviour
Scientists invent invisible underwater robots based on glass eels
The robot is powerful enough to catch a fish, but gentle enough to avoid harming it
How mind-reading technology lets locked-in sufferers communicate
A new kind of brain-computer interface has helped ALS sufferers who cannot move to communicate, reveals Ana Matran-Fernandez
Scientific explanations for alien abduction aren’t out of this world
Brain sensitivity and personality traits may have the power to create false experiences
Mind-reading breakthrough lets scientists ‘talk’ to locked-in patients
Experiment allowed researchers to 'read' the minds of totally paralysed people
Trump advisor and climate change denier Myron Ebell goes to Number 10
Mr Ebell led the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency, and has played a central part in Mr Trump’s commitment to remove climate protections
Stimulating the brain with electricity may reduce bulimia symptoms
While psychological therapies are effective for many people with eating disorders, they don’t work for all. Researchers believe that a form of electrical treatment might just be the answer
People behind 'rogue' National Parks Twitters could be prosecuted
The accounts posted climate change facts in opposition to Donald Trump's gagging of officials and global warming denialism
Physicists might have made mistake in turning hydrogen into metal
‘I don’t think the paper is convincing at all,’ one expert said
Donald Trump to sack climate change scientists and slash budgets
All the agency's research will now have to be approved by the government and may be deleted entirely from the website
Elon Musk may take on Los Angeles traffic by tunnelling under the city
'Traffic is driving me nuts. Am going to build a tunnel boring machine and just start digging'
Human-pig hybrid created in lab
The embryo was terminated before the potential chimerical animal could be born
Humanity is just minutes from the apocalypse, Doomsday Clock says
The election of Donald Trump is driving the planet towards oblivion, the elite organisation said
Scientists to oppose Donald Trump in huge ‘March for Science’
The demonstration will be in opposition to the administration’s plans to delete climate change data and gag scientists
What your brain structure says about your personality
The shape of your brain could be a determinant in levels of neurosis
Doomsday clock expected to put apocalypse 'one or two minutes away'
Dangers in the world 'threaten the very existence of civilisation', the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said
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Depression linked to higher chance of dying from cancer, study finds
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London's air pollution worse than Beijing's as smog chokes UK capital
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Why UPS drivers don’t turn left and you probably shouldn’t either
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Seabubbles – a new hydrofoil taxi for city rivers
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Elon Musk suggests that Trump may be good for climate change
Fight against pancreatic cancer takes 'monumental leap forward'
'Golden opportunities to transform patients' lives do not come along often, so we must grab this one with both hands,' says cancer charity chief
Worker wasps 'quit their jobs unless bosses make better offer'
‘Our findings reveal intriguing parallels between wasp populations and our own business world’
The A303 is part of the Stonehenge setting, don't bury it
Stonehenge has a traffic problem. But building a £1.4bn tunnel is not the answer or in the interests of cultural heritage, argues Dan Hicks