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Growing up with HIV: Stigma, secrets and breakthrough

By Léa Surugue

Mother to child transmission of HIV has nearly disappeared in the UK thanks to antiretroviral therapy since the AIDS...

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Oldest human skeleton of the Americas discovered in Mexico's 'Black Hole' graveyard

A 12,000-year-old skeleton was found among sabre-toothed cats and giant ground sloths.

Berlin has been invaded ... by Louisiana swamp crayfish

Berlin's huge Tiergarten park is crawling with a species of crayfish native to America's Deep South.

By David Sim

Earliest Italian wine discovered is more than 5,000 years old

Pottery hidden in a Sicilian cave contains the oldest traces of Italian wine ever discovered.

By Martha Henriques

3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet code finally cracked

Babylonians beat the Greeks to this form of advanced mathematics by 1,000 years.

400-year-old bones solve mystery of what the dodo really looked like

16th and 17th century sailors differed wildly in their descriptions of the dodo's appearance.

By Martha Henriques

How the forces of 'dark DNA' have bent the path of evolution

Evolution isn't just shaped by our ordinary genes - newly discovered 'dark DNA' changes who we are as well.

By Adam Hargreaves

Latest photos of the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Hato in Macau, Hong Kong and China

Macau has been devastated by Typhoon Hato – the most powerful storm to hit the territory in half a century.

By David Sim

Weedy seadragons filmed having sex for the first time

Diver captures first ever footage of weedy seadragons having sex

The footage shows the entire mating process between the common seadragons.

By Jordan Bhatt

Massive scale of arsenic contamination in groundwater throughout Pakistan revealed

The Indus Plain is sitting on huge reserves of arsenic-rich groundwater.

By Martha Henriques

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A 132 million-year-old sea monster has been identified as a new species

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Growing up with HIV: Stigma, secrets and breakthrough

Oldest human skeleton of the Americas discovered in Mexico's 'Black Hole' graveyard

Berlin has been invaded ... by Louisiana swamp crayfish

Earliest Italian wine discovered is more than 5,000 years old

3,700-year-old Babylonian stone tablet code finally cracked

400-year-old bones solve mystery of what the dodo really looked like

How the forces of 'dark DNA' have bent the path of evolution

Latest photos of the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Hato in Macau, Hong Kong and China

Diver captures first ever footage of weedy seadragons having sex

Massive scale of arsenic contamination in groundwater throughout Pakistan revealed

How the cute, furry and highly venomous Solenodon survived extinction against all odds

How unicorns, fairies and the Loch Ness Monster could help save endangered species

We're running out of time to discover the deep sea's strangest creatures

Gut bacteria regulate your mental health by tapping the genes in your brain

'Exercise pill' could trick blood vessels into thinking you're working out

American Civil War: Mystery deaths of submarine H. L. Hunley crew finally solved after 150 years

Nasa has a $3.5bn plan to avert catastrophic eruption from Yellowstone supervolcano

The moon has no water, say scientists who analysed lunar rock brought back by Apollo 16 astronauts

Human waste could soon be engineered to 3D print equipment for long space journeys