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Brain wiring in the male (attention : vulgarisation très vulgarisée et donc pas à prendre au pied de la lettre).

Famous scientific hoaxes in history.

Genes that influence common diseases such as diabetes and breast cancer can have dramatically different effects when passed on by mothers and fathers, scientists have discovered.

The first comprehensive genetic maps of human cancers have been created by British scientists, paving the way for a medical revolution in which every tumour will be targeted with personalised therapy.

Patients with a rare and incurable eye disease that causes blindness early in adulthood are expected to become the first people to benefit from an embryonic stem-cell therapy.

A fossil of one of the earliest relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex ever discovered has been unearthed in New Mexico.

The Met Office has embarked on an urgent exercise to bolster the reputation of climate-change science after the furore over stolen e-mails.

Scientists have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time by using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. The advent of so-called “in-vitro” meat could reduce the billions of tons of greenhouse gases emitted each year by farm animals — if people are willing to eat it.

A leading scientist acclaimed as the grandfather of global warming has denounced the Copenhagen summit on climate change next week as a farce.