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researchers discovered that plants have developed complex, chemical systems of communication when situated nearby each other

Oxford University study each robot performs the roles of 3.6 workers.

Dogs could be used to study obesity in humans after it was discovered that their gut harbours similar genetic material. Researchers found that the gene content of the dog microbiome showed many similarities to humans and was more similar to ours than the microbiome of pigs or mice. This microbiome, the combined genetic material of the microorganisms, have more similar genes and responses to diet in humans and dogs than established before. Dr Luis Pedro Coelho and colleagues from the...

The origins of dinosaurs lie in a massive meteorite strike which gave them a chance of survival, according to a new study. It is commonly understood that the dinosaurs disappeared with a bang - wiped out by a great meteorite impact on the Earth 66 million years ago. But researchers now think a meteorite strike around 245 million years ago near the end of a massextinction allowed for a boom in dinosaur numbers. In the paper, published in journal Nature...

Risky behaviour mystified scientists for years because it puts the world's fastest animal at extraordinary risk

Men who munch lots of dairy had stronger spines and hips but women did not get the same protection

Man bit off more than he could chew in first case of hot chillies narrowing brain arteries setting off the short splitting headaches

Fateful life events ages the brain by four months