The hepatitis C virus infects up to 500,000 people in the UK alone, many of the infections going undiagnosed. It is the single biggest cause of people requiring a liver transplant in Britain. Now scientists have found monoclonal antibodies which may be a significant step towards a vaccine.

Physicists have coaxed two separate atoms to communicate with a sort of quantum intuition that Albert Einstein called "spooky." In doing so, the researchers have made an advance toward super-fast quantum computing. The research could also be a building block for a quantum internet.

The space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago has been traced to a giant 'mother rock' that gave rise to a family of asteroids

France has voted against making Microsoft's OOXML document format an international standard, while Australia has abstained from the vote at standards body ISO.