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He was a mentor to Lawrence of Arabia, a maverick explosives expert who played a pivotal role in the Arab insurgency against the Ottoman Empire.

The secret to happiness is keeping busy, research has found.

"Busy doing nothing, working the whole day through, trying to find lots of things not to do."

Rocks have been identified on Mars which may contain evidence of life, researchers have said.

Hollywood's legions of sound effects artists, who bring films to life with an unlikely range of props including celery, polystyrene and soap, could be made redundant by a new generation of synthesized sound.

A giant asteroid called 1999 RQ36 may crash into Earth on September 24 2182, scientists believe.

Parkinson's disease sufferers have been offered new hope after the gene mutation which triggers it was identified by scientists.

Middle-aged women are more sexually active and enjoy better orgasms than younger women, according to the latest scientific research.

Women are more likely to make a fuss about midge bites than men because they are "more aware of their skin," new research suggests.

A gel that can help decayed teeth grow back in weeks could signal an end to fillings.

Tall men and overweight women are most likely to get bitten by midges, new research has found.

Half of all experiments on animals carried out in the last year involved genetically modified species for the first time.

People with severe paralysis may soon be able to surf the internet or drive a wheelchair simply by breathing, according to scientists in Israel.

'Inception' raises interesting questions about the brain's susceptibility to ideas during dreaming, says Roger Highfield.

Jetpacks and flying cars, teleportation and time travel: Tom Chivers on the movie inventions that are now part of life.

Scientists want to build a bigger 31-mile long collider to build upon the work of the Large Hadron Collider.

Homeopathy will continue to be available on the NHS despite an influential health committee condemning it as medically unproven.

The Roman control over Britain stretched even further than first thought, the discovery of a new villa suggests.

The remains of the largest rat to ever roam the Earth have been discovered in a remote cave in East Timor.

When two spectators standing on the boundary at a cricket match saw an object hurtling down from the sky, their first instinct might have been to applaud.