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Researchers develop a compound that, in mice, awakened cancer cells’ "self-destruct" process, killing the cancer cells and consequently stopping their spread, while leaving "normal" cells untouched.

Scientists at UCL have shown a blood test could predict the onset of tuberculosis three to six months before people become unwell, a finding which could help better target antibiotics and save countless lives.

Squirrels that strongly favor their left or right side are less good at learning, new research suggests. The University of Exeter study found that grey squirrels which strongly favored a side did less well on a learning task. They had to learn to use a paw, rather than their mouth, to get nuts.

According to a new study that has implications for how people learn, infants do not try things at random or simply mimic what they see adults doing. Instead, they combine information from their own firsthand experience and the experiences of other people to decide whether to persist in trying to solve a problem.

There was a 29% reduction in the total amount of sugar sold in soft drinks in the UK between 2015 and 2018, despite an increase in sales of soft drinks by volume of 7%, according to new research.

Greenhouse warming effects of ozone-depleting substances caused about a third of all global warming from 1955 to 2005, and half of Arctic warming and sea ice loss during that period, acting as a strong supplement to carbon dioxide, the most pervasive greenhouse gas.

Whooping cough bacteria, potentially deadly in infants, are increasingly evading immunity from the existing vaccine, strengthening calls for a new vaccine to be developed and deployed urgently.

According to the World Health Organization, a weak development pipeline for new antibiotics is undermining efforts to combat drug-resistant infections.

A new study has examined the opportunities, progress and challenges for the development of membranes with nanochannels and nanopores with lithium selectivity for harvesting lithium from seawater.

UNIGE researchers have discovered a new gene that causes blindness and
cardiomyopathy. They have also managed to halt the progression of eye disease and treat cardiac disease by administering a food supplement.