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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRise imager has delivered detailed high resolution imagery since taking settling into orbit in March 2006.

A pair of unrelated studies into the efficacy of stem cell-based treatments for correcting cataracts had the scientific community abuzz on Tuesday. The studies are "amazing, almost like science fiction" Mark Daniell, hea...

Guys, if a woman cancels a date you should definitely, 100 percent not follow up with more than 20 texts, insult her intelligence or call her a "psycho." To prove this point, Reddit and Imgur user Msmessyclean posted eig...

Tests with an autonomous golf cart show that the gaming accessory beats other systems at detecting small road obstacles

Some patients with breast cancer, lung cancer and leukemia seem to fare poorly after treatment because of the effects of a particular gene, a new study finds. The gene, called CYP3A7, is normally only active in infancy, ...

Your personal risk of developing complex diseases such as diabetes, depression or cancer is influenced in part by genetic variants, that is, letters in your DNA sequence that differ between people. These variants disrupt...

The real-life "Death Star" that astronomers recently caught in the act of destroying a planetary building block is continuing to disintegrate orbiting objects. This finding could shed light on how dead stars rip apart th...

To send a man to the moon (and back) is no easy task at all, what more to be able to send a human all the way to Mars. While science fiction had always explored the possibility of living elsewhere other than on planet ea...

How does NASA decide on where to land their spacecraft upon re-entry? This question was originally answered on Quora by C Stuart Hardwick.

Researchers have discovered an optimal way to image the bile ducts during gallbladder removal surgeries using a tested and safe dye and a real-time near-infrared florescence laparoscopic camera.

Plastic is a problem. We use too much of it -- over 300 million tons are produced every year -- and we can't easily get rid of it (there's that whole lack of biodegradability thing). But scientists in Japan may have come...

In the spirit of Charles Lindbergh, a French research company hopes to complete the first carbon-free trans-Atlantic flight later this year. The Eraole, an electric biofuel plane developed by Laboratoire Océan Vital, w...

The generally accepted medical maxim that elevated HDL cholesterol (HDL-C) is "good" has been overturned by a multi-center, international study, led by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University o...

Researchers report that they have found markedly low levels of the protein NLRX1 in multiple laboratory models of colorectal cancer, and in samples of human tissue. Studies have shown that the protein is known to be invo...

Exposure to lead during early development can alter the the gut microbiota, increasing the chances for obesity in adulthood, researcher have found.

An international team of scientists has identified novel gene locations associated with childhood body mass index -- an important measurement related to childhood obesity. This largest-ever genetic study of childhood BMI...

Approximately 14 percent of men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer at some point in their lifetimes, according to the National Institutes of Health. Radiation therapy traditionally has been a primary treatment for th...

Emerging evidence on the development, 'prodromal' characteristics, and long-term course of schizophrenia provide reasons for optimism for developing new treatments and preventive approaches for this devastating disorder,...

White women, younger people are increasingly the victims of overdose deaths, a first detailed analysis about drug overdoses in Pennsylvania reveals.

Scientists believe that 'conserved' genes -- those found in life forms that range from bacteria to plants, insects and humans -- perform vital biological functions across species. And limited research on one of those gen...

Researchers have identified a link between the expression of a cancer-related gene and cell-surface molecules that protect tumors from the immune system.

The generally accepted medical maxim that elevated HDL cholesterol is 'good' has been overturned by a multi-center, international study, They show that a certain genetic cause of increased HDL-C may actually be 'bad,' no...