27 Sep 2012

Brands take the battle against ageing to deep within our skin cells, writes Tama Lung

3 Mar 2013

A letter by Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of DNA, outlining the Nobel Prize-winning achievement to his young son is expected to fetch as much as US$2 million when it is auctioned by Christie's...

27 Jan 2013

In the frantic search for an elusive "cure", few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its place in the grand story of life? Astonishingly, in spite...

31 Dec 2012

Nobel medicine laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini, a neurologist and developmental biologist, died yesterday at her home in Rome aged 103.

Italy's so-called "Lady of the Cells" was the oldest...

16 Dec 2012

In the rainforests of Costa Rica lives a species of spider that sometimes displays a strange and ghoulish habit.

Is smoking a sin?

The First Commandment of the Bible states: "For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth...

Butterfly experts are baffled by the surge in seasonal visitors to the city's leading natural habitat and are calling for more volunteers to help them tag the insects.

Shark brains have been found to share several features with those of humans, a discovery which Australian researchers believe could be crucial to developing "repellents" for the killer great white...

An elephant in a South Korean zoo is using his trunk to pick up not only food, but also human vocabulary.

It could be the muffled sound of someone singing in the shower or that nonsensical, indecipherable speech of the Muppets' Swedish Chef.

In fact, the bizarre audio unveiled by scientists on...

A good doctor will always assess a patient's health for any conditions that might put the patient at a higher risk during an aesthetic procedure, says Dr Walter King Wing-keung.

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