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Powering a mobile phone with a T-shirt

Soon you will be able to charge your mobile phone with a humble T-shirt.

Scientists have found that elephantnose fish have excellent vision due to the unique structure of their retina.

Wordsworth was right about these flowers.

Birds living in urban habitats recognise individual human faces.

This could be a tasty new option for coeliac patients.

Britain’s neolithic people pulled together to build this monument.

When male peacocks display their feathery plumage they are also having infrasonic conversations.

An apple a day keeps the doctor — and the fat — away.

The fossils found in Germany are the first known example of prehistoric sex.

Music can evolve by the process of natural selection, the same way species evolve in the natural world.