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After NSA whistleblower and millennial sex symbol Edward Snowden tweeted a mysterious string of characters on Friday afternoon, conspiracy theorists and concerned fans feared he might be dead when Sputnik, a Russian news...

Scientists have now have a high-resolution view of exactly how the experimental therapy ZMapp targets Ebola virus. The new study is also the first to show how an antibody in the ZMapp 'drug cocktail' targets a second Ebo...

Photographer Jimmy Nelson has spent over 3 decades traveling around the world and taking photos of people and places. He’s best known for his portraits of the disappearing tribes of the world. In the 6.5-minute video a...

Yutu - aka Jade Rabbit - ground to a halt years ago, but is now pining for the craters China never fails in its high-profile scientific endeavours, so news that its Yutu lunar rover has stopped functioning is being spun ...

Autonomous adenomas are the most common benign tumors of the thyroid gland. Mutations in two genes account for around 70 percent of the cases. Scientists have now discovered another key trigger.

News An interdisciplinary, international group of researchers has found new biophysical markers that could help improve the understanding of treatments for sickle cell disease. Contributed Author:  Carnegie Mellon Unive...

Recently I got a message from a person who said that they liked my pictures, but unfortunately they don't have a “photographic eye.” This inspired me to write the following article about basic aesthetics and their re...

WANDRD is back with another Kickstarter project to kick off the launch of their newest addition to their PRVKE line of bags, the PRVKE 21. The company burst onto the scene last year with their PRVKE bag, which has been a...

After fully sequencing the latent HIV 'provirus' genomes from 19 people being treated for HIV, scientists report that even in patients who start treatment very early, the only widely available method to measure the reser...

News The potential foundation for a next-generation therapy, called tetraaryl cyclobutane, or CB, is being studied as an option for prostate tumors that have grown resistant to current anti-androgen drugs, notably enzalu...

Scientists from the NOvA collaboration have announced an exciting new result that could improve our understanding of the behavior of neutrinos.

One of the most anticipated PS4 and PC games of the year is still to be launched this Tuesday, but its developers are already announcing a "Day Zero" update. Yes, No Man's Sky, which was delayed no less than 2 months, wi...

Researchers able to watch wire-fraudsters operate in real time The ancient-in-internet-years "Nigerian e-mail" scam remains popular and profitable for its operators ... when they don't shoot themselves in the foot....

They're two of the biggest mysteries in Parkinson's disease research -- where does the disease start? And how can it be stopped early in the process?

Genetic research is a valuable tool in understanding diseases and their prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. However, significant obstacles limit the clinical use of this knowledge to all groups. Genetic applications in...

A new study examined two classes of medications commonly prescribed to prevent cardiovascular events in dialysis patients and found no significant difference in outcomes.

In the retina of mice, a new type of neuron that falls outside century-old classifications has been discovered. The new cell acts like one class of neurons but anatomically resembles another. It is not only a new kind of...

New research provides important clues that might help understand the resistance to drugs that 'starve' tumors, and also how cancer cells manage to survive in the center of the tumor mass, where barely any blood vessels c...

People who live in provinces with policies that allow pharmacists to administer influenza vaccines are more likely to be vaccinated, according to a new Canadian study.

What do you do if you’re out shooting on-location, without strobes, and you want to darken a bright background without affecting the light on your model? Joel Grimes shows you a neat trick that’ll work just as well a...

Most grade school students are likely to claim recess as their favorite period of the day; however, in many cases recess still can be sedentary with students not engaging in enough physical activity. Now researchers have...

Older adults in assisted-living facilities experience limits to their rights to sexual freedom because of a lack of policies regarding the issue and the actions of staff and administrators at these facilities, according ...