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Epilepsy: gene therapy technique targeting overactive brain cells shows promise in treating drug-resistant form of the condition
Something like 50 million people worldwide have epilepsy
Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms the world’s poorest countries, and what does compensation look like?
You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in the coming weeks as government...
A blood test that screens for multiple cancers at once promises to boost early detection
Detecting cancer early before it spreads throughout the body can be lifesaving
Rock stars: how a group of scientists in South Africa rescued a rare 500kg chunk of human history
Scientific breakthroughs can happen in the strangest ways and places
How we found microbes rarer than a ticket to the Moon
You are more likely to take a trip to the Moon than to see a microbe called Legendrea...
Newly discovered species of bacteria in the microbiome may be a culprit behind rheumatoid arthritis
Rheumatoid arthritis affects 1 in 100 people worldwide
The unusual ways viruses and parasites use their cell membranes to spread – and how scientists are fighting back
Cell membranes make up the exterior of all cells and are a basic structure found...
From radiation to water pollution to cities, humans are now a driver of evolution in the ‘natural’ world – podcast
Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural...
Alzheimer’s disease: surprising new theory about what might cause it
In 1906, Alois Alzheimer, a psychiatrist and neuroanatomist, reported “a peculiar...
Silicon is used in construction, microchips and more – ‘green’ methods could help extract it from sugarcane waste
In some parts of South Africa’s Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, sugarcane...
First-ever genetic analysis of a Neanderthal family paints a fascinating picture of a close-knit community
Our closest evolutionary relatives, the Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), were...
Helping the liver regenerate itself could give patients with end-stage liver disease a treatment option besides waiting for a transplant
The liver is known for its ability to regenerate. It can completely regrow itself...
How bumblebees can help us understand the evolution of human memories
Researching the way other animals’ minds work can deepen our understanding of the...
Base jumping: what we can learn from some of the world’s most extreme athletes about overcoming doubt
You can be on that exit point for five minutes, battling all these voices in the...
Two new members join the Board of Trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation
The Board of Trustees is made up of ten professionals from different fields of expertise...
Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped
In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal...