Science
Regenerative bandage ‘speeds up healing in patients with diabetes’
The 'regenerative bandage' quickly heals hard-to-treat sores - without the need of drugs
Cancer breakthrough – Prostate cancer DNA test identifies men at six-fold increased risk
A major new study involving more than 140,000 men has identified 63 new genetic variations in the DNA code that increase the risk of prostate cancer
One of the world’s most famous trees is being wiped out by climate change
The baobab - more commonly known as the 'tree of life' - also hit the headlines after Prince Harry and Megham Markle's love blossomed under one during a holiday.
Up to a third of UK’s natural gas ‘could be replaced by hydrogen to cut carbon emissions’
Researchers say that 30 per cent of the natural gas fuelling British homes and businesses could be replaced by hydrogen - without requiring any changes to boilers or ovens
Autism link to food allergies discovered
Those with the learning disability were more than two and a half times as likely to suffer a food intolerance suggesting a link
‘Monstrous’ new Russian sabre-tooth fossils clarify early evolution of mammals
Fossils found in Russia has revealed two new species of 'menacing' sabre tooth beasts
Solar system with three Earth sized planets discovered just 160 light years away
Adds to evidence rocky planets are common throughout the universe
Black death was around in the Bronze Age
A pair of 3,800-year-old skeletons buried together in Russia test positive for a strain of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis that is ancestral to the strain that caused the Black Death
People could soon be given a jab of friendly bacteria to protect against post-traumatic stress disorder
The probiotic-based immunisation could also be used to treat anxiety and depression.