Imperial College London

AFP - Scientists said Monday they had succeeded for the first time in wiping out an entire population of malaria-carrying mosquitos in the lab using a gene editing tool to programme their extinction.

AFP - Bumblebees acquire a taste for food laced with a pesticide known to harm them, according to a study suggesting the chemicals pose an even greater threat to pollinators than previously thought.

Scientists have grown a replacement, genetically modified skin to cover almost the entire body of a seven-year-old Syrian boy who was suffering from a devastating genetic disorder.

Childhood obesity is soaring across the world, increasing more than tenfold over the past four decades, putting many millions at risk of poor health and an early death, according to the biggest ever analysis of the data.

Oxford University has again topped the world's top universities ranking according to the Times Higher Education magazine covering 1,000 universities in 77 countries, BTS quoted TASS as saying.

Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis suffer long lasting brain damage and are in much greater danger of developing schizophrenia.

American researchers say the drug is particularly dangerous for a group of people who have a genetic susceptibility to the mental health disorder – and it could be the trigger for it.

At a time when British Prime Minister Theresa May is trying hard to seal the Brexit deal, a study shows that the original Brexit took place around 450,000 years ago.

Interestingly, no one voted for it when Britain walked away from the rest of Europe at that time. Scientists explain that it happened when a strip of land, which once connected ancient Britain to Europe, was destroyed.

We are physically much closer to the space particles dated back to the birth of the solar system 6.4 billion years ago than we think! In fact we are so close that we can find them on our roof tops. Well, not exactly, as they are too small to detect. But scientists have discovered cosmic dust raining down from space on roof tops in three major cities.

English-speaking universities continue to dominate the world, according to a new ranking from the Times Higher Education (THE) supplement released on Thursday.

The 2015 ranking of global universities has just been published by QS World University Rankings.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is the one which has taken again the top place for the fourth year running, whereas Harvard climbed two places and got the second place.