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The IBEX spacecraft will explore the boundaries of the heliosphere, the protective bubble around our solar system which stops most life-threatening radiation from elsewhere in the galaxy.

The global decline of bee populations is said to have dramatic consequences for our food production. Research now shows that agriculture is largely unaffected by this phenomenon.

A new magnetic resonance technique makes it possible to measure the temperature in internal body tissues in a non-invasive way and could therefore help to target heat therapy for cancer.

The legal battles over the status of the grey wolf as an endangered species are continuing in the US while at the same time a discussion is ongoing regarding the wolf species we are talking about.

Oxford professor and biologist Richard Dawkins discusses Harun Yahya’s Atlas of Creation, at the first international conference on political Islam, Sharia law and civil society, organised by the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain.

On a cross between physics, chemistry, biology and what some could possibly call blasphemy, European scientists have developed a self-assembling integrated circuit, an important step towards the ultimate goal: self-assembling computers.

Why have peacocks such elaborate tails, why have birds of paradise often such crippling plumage? Sexual selection is the answer, but how does sexual selection actually work? Thanks to the humble yeast, we may now be able to find the answer.

The Christian right is delighted with Sarah Palin. They consider her “one of us,” a follower of the Holy Bible. But the Bible doesn’t quite agree with them.