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Scientist John O’Keefe, whose father hailed from Newmarket, Co Cork, and Norwegian married couple May-Britt and Edvard Moser, have won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the "inner GPS" that helps the brain navigate through the world.

Three scientists, including a Norwegian married couple, have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering the “inner GPS” that helps the brain navigate through the world.

ASTRONOMERS believe they have found a second planet outside our solar system that seems to be in the right zone for life — just.

Astronomers believe they have found a second planet outside our solar system that seems to be in the right zone for life – just.

A PLANET formed within another galaxy has been discovered for the first time.

EVIDENCE of a previously unknown species of human that lived alongside our ancestors 40,000 years ago has been uncovered in Siberia.

A man who published a study that he said proved the Nazis did not gas Jews at Auschwitz was deported from the US to his native Germany today to serve a prison term for Holocaust denial, Stuttgart prosecutors said.

AN infant gorilla in a Congo sanctuary is smashing palm nuts between two rocks to extract oil, surprising and intriguing scientists who say they have much to learn about what gorillas can do - and about what that says about evolution.

Scientists in Germany have made a scientific breakthrough which could create 'living computers' with brains and implants that could repair damaged spinal cords or eyes.