Mother and daughter pair hope to be the first participants of a truly successful womb transplant.
A new method of creating laser light from a single cell may help improve light-based therapies.
Scientists have developed a treatment that stops the reactions triggered by an allergy to cats.
A forerunner to the modern machine gun invented by Leonardo Da Vinci himself has been found in Croatia.
A new use has been discovered in the ever-growing field of nanotechnology: fingerprint analysis.
The gene that causes some people to be covered in thick hair has been identified by scientists.
A new book aims to help us become less addicted to our technology and lead more balanced lives.
A decline in the average wind speed over the last few years may mean the end for wind turbines.
A new study finds that the human brain automatically limits how many true friends you can have.
Studying a magnet's ability to turn on and off may lead scientists to a computer revolution.
A skin patch that may cure thousands of their deadly peanut allergy has been developed by doctors.
US intelligence aims to use the nuances of language to reveal who may be a potential enemy.
The Turanor PlanetSolar is circumnavigating the world's oceans to prove that renewable energy can work.
Scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria that actually depends on caffeine for survival.
The US military has added a small missile to the smallest ever spy plane, the 17ft wide Arcturus.
Pioneers of a new material believe it could have the same applications as silicon.
A 26-year-old Australian man is to have his paralysed hand removed and replaced with a synthetic one.
The new reactor is gaining momentum and could be the answer to providing clean, unlimited energy.
Scientists believe the core of the Earth may be melting, a process linked to activity on the surface.
Days before the March earthquake in Japan the atomsphere above the epicentre heated rapidly.