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Where you sit in the sequence of your siblings may affect how you turn out - influencing health, height, intelligence and even sexuality (full text available to subscribers)     

A team of researchers has found a way to self-assemble complex structures out of bricks smaller than a grain of salt. The new method could help solve one of the major challenges in tissue engineering: Creating injectable...

Scientists have discovered a protein mediator SON plays a critical role in the health and proper functioning of human embryonic stem cells.

In rural parts of the world, building a reliable road infrastructure seems night impossible. Andreas Raptopoulos has another idea: vast networks of drones     

Scientists have found a new link between early-onset Parkinson's disease and a piece of DNA missing from chromosome 22. The findings help shed new light on the molecular changes that lead to Parkinson's disease.

Scientists have identified a new way to manipulate the immune system that may keep it from attacking the body's own molecules in autoimmune diseases such as Type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

New research examines antisocial texting habits in teenagers as a predictor for later deviant behavior by tracking teenagers' texts throughout the ninth grade. Self-reports and parent/teacher assessments revealed that st...

The degeneration of a small, wishbone-shaped structure deep inside the brain may provide the earliest clues to future cognitive decline, long before healthy older people exhibit clinical symptoms of memory loss or dement...

According to a recently published ten-year study, men are more likely to develop a physical illness than women.

8 awesome facts about the world's fastest sailing yachts

With the "Valley of Death" looming as an increasingly serious obstacle to introducing better ways of preventing, diagnosing and treating diseases, a noted scientist recently described a new approach for moving promising ...

An intervention to improve household routines known to be associated with obesity increased sleep duration and reduced TV viewing among low-income, minority children, and the approach may be an effective tool to reduce b...

The vision for a new branch of medicine, inspired by the ancient field that began with peg legs and hand hooks has been named "molecular prosthetics." Scientists have described advances toward making molecular prosthetic...

An ingredient in a medicinal tea brewed from tree bark by tribal healers on the South Pacific island of Samoa -- studied by scientists over the last 25 years -- is showing significant promise as a drug lead in the long-s...

This foam mold will form the basis for a 10-foot brass statue Remember last year when the internet worked itself into a tizzy over a Kickstarter that raised $50,000 for a Robocop statue to be placed in Detroit? The statu...

It is thought to be a perfect recipe for destroying marine life, but studies are suggesting that trawling the seabed could help some fish thrive in some places     

In an advance toward providing mosquito-plagued people, pets and livestock with an invisibility cloak against these blood-sucking insects, scientists today described discovery of substances that block mosquitoes' ability...

Roads that make sense for pedestrians and horses work less well for delivery vans and 18 wheelers. Enter this handy-dandy mapping tool. Big cities have a problem: they weren't designed big. Roads that made sense for pede...

A trade-off between investments in mating and parenting may explain why fathers who are more involved with their kids have smaller testicles     

For decades, science fiction directors have struggled to balance science realism and plausibility with enough drama to engage their audience. Physical impossibilities, such as sound propagating through air-less space, of...

After a brief steering glitch, the LADEE spacecraft is on its way to test broadband on the moon and study the thin lunar atmosphere     

An amazing timelapse from the top of Rockefeller Center NASA's LADEE spacecraft launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Friday night, en route to an orbital trip around the moon. The night-flight provided ph...