This week in science: researchers functionally cure type 1 diabetes in mice; a strange new organism could represent a completely unknown branch of the tree of life; a physicist ponders the damage a tiny black hole would cause shooting through the ...
As we get older, our brains start to change in ways that make them increasingly vulnerable to disease - and a detailed new study of these changes points to a way some of this wear and tear might be prevented or reversed.
Two large gold deposits discovered in China may hold a collective mass of over 2,000 metric tons (2,200 US tons) of the precious material - the largest ever found within the country's borders.
