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While boffins work on the Robobrain, a robot sentry and robot sex slaves, Boris struggles with knives and forks.

Epigenetics concerns ways the DNA code is actually expressed and implemented, and is distinctly weird.

Thorium just might prove key to a new generation of nuclear reactors - IF major challenges can be overcome.

Even with science reports, it’s worth remembering the adage: If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

We’re omnivores, and whilst we can thrive on a variety of diets, it's very tough or even impossible to recommend an ideal human diet.

In this season to be jolly, even normally serious scientists may loosen up a little, perhaps publishing frivolous research, and looking on the brighter side of life.

The age of the wonder drug seems to be drawing to a close, bringing to an end modern medicine as we know it.

Did life start in a primordial soup on earth, or with chemicals carried from Mars?

Sshort-term memory may retain around seven items for half a minute, while long-term memories form in a process that may be heightened by emotions.

The 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics was for measuring and manipulating quantum systems; while the Chemistry prize was for work on receptors.

Lithium batteries have proven especially attractive as they produce high power relatively to their size.

3D printing is developing rapidly, with applications including rapidly making complex prototypes, and even creating aeroplane parts.

Beyond producing a pretty music album cover, mapping the brain’s circuitry may lead to significant medical advances

World’s biggest machine surely discovers the elusive Higgs boson, helping explain mass. Further quests await.