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Wayward sulfur helped form much of the world's reserves

Chemists reveal new details about why scratching a glass causes crystals to form

Scientists find strange collection of fossils in the African desert

Researchers uncover nitrogen-fixing bacteria in the ants' gardens

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The Large Hadron Collider the world's largest atom smasher has been restarted after a 14month hiatus for repairs.

Money does not make you happy but therapy does academics have discovered.

Scientists have decoded the genetic makeup of corn and found the humble vegetable contains more genes than humans.

The first human trials of a stem cell therapy for an eye disease that causes blindness in young people could start next year.

Listening to revision tapes during sleep could help pupils get better exam results a new study suggests.

Five exotic crocodiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs 100 million years ago including one sporting boarlike tusks and another with a duckbill snout have been discovered in the Sahara.

America's woolly mammoths and giant beavers were not killed off by a giant meteor strike a new study suggests.

A fireball briefly illuminates parts of the Utah sky in the US as an object roughly the size of an oven streaks to the ground.

Fossils of enormous ancient crocodiles with teeth like boar's tusks have been discovered in the Sahara.

Tiny 'hobbits' whose remains were discovered on a remote Indonesian island are a new human species and not just dwarfs new evidence suggests.