Nobel Prize for medicine honours parasite work
The award was shared between William C Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for a roundworm drug, and Youyou Tu for a malaria therapy.
The award was shared between William C Campbell and Satoshi Ōmura for a roundworm drug, and Youyou Tu for a malaria therapy.
Agreement aims for commercial availability within five years, with research efforts bolstered by EUR 700 million of Horizon 2020 funding.
Salty water runs down crater walls on Mars, NASA says, increasing the likelihood that the red planet harbours life.
The six-passenger-carrying WEpod will drive in normal traffic to connect two Dutch towns.
Researchers find earliest evidence of hunters in the Kenyan Rift using hills and valleys to trap and kill their prey.
Researchers are designing artificial tutors that can identify bored, frustrated or unhappy students and adapt lessons accordingly.
Scientists who found that all mammals weighing more than 3kg empty their bladders over about 21 seconds win award for improbable research.
Seven photos taken during the lander’s descent onto Comet 67P have been turned into a one-minute movie.
The biodegradable, seaweed-based spherical container is described by its makers as ‘water you can eat’.
Researchers speculate that contaminated surgical instruments or injections such as human growth hormone could pose transmission risk.