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Type 2 diabetes is the most common form of diabetes, a condition characterized by high blood sugar levels.

Ancient Antarctic forests were like nothing seen on Earth today, new research reveals. The polar trees had features of today's tropical trees and may have been mixed evergreen and deciduous.

New research offers one of the first in-depth views of how metabolism changes during pregnancy reduce the effect of a commonly used drug to treat bipolar disorder. The blood level of the drug decreased during pregnancy, ...

Experts have advice on how to slow aging, and how this can help with appearance and self-esteem.

A self-described "biohacker" had a big electronic chip -- almost as big as a deck of cards -- inserted beneath the skin of his arm. Without a doctor's help. And without anesthetics.

Scientists debate impact of earthworm-triggered greenhouse gas emissions.

No water has flowed across Antarctica's Friis Hills for 14 million years. But when Earth's climate was warmer, fossils show, tundra mosses and a lake covered the flat-topped hills.

You've probably heard of 3D printing--but now there's 4D printing, making materials that can change shape over time. The U.S. Army has invested $855,000 in three universities to develop the technique.

The three-rotor SwitchBlade, a small, collapsible drone that's already raised $32,810 on Kickstarter, is designed to compete with radially symmetric quadrotors in the realms of search and rescue, infrastructure inspectio...

Serpentine electronics could improve performance of cars and planes.  Experiments in wind tunnels can provide insights into aerodynamics that can improve vehicle performance. Image credit: Georgepehli. Rights info    ...

When their normal food supply runs low, the clonal offspring of pea aphids turn to an alternative source of nutrition: parents and other adults     

National Marine Sanctuaries were designed to protect marine life, but a new study reveals that human activity still threatens life within these protected zones

The sun's activity is in free fall, according to a leading space physicist, which may slow the rise of global temperatures due to climate change. But don't expect a little ice age     

The streets are choked by a fog of fumigating pesticide as Nicaragua tries to combat the mosquitoes that spread dengue     

Farming has stripped the US prairies of their essential microbes. Identifying the lost bugs and putting them back could help restore the degraded land     

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Syphilis has been infecting people for centuries, and many researchers have tried to pinpoint the part of the world where the bacterium that causes the disease first appeared. Despite all efforts however, the origin of s...

In a new synthesis of past work, researchers found that women consistently score lower than men on common assessments of conceptual understanding of physics. However, when examining the factors that may account for these...

Most people know about ultrasound through its role in prenatal imaging: those grainy, grey outlines of junior constructed from reflected sound waves. A new technology called an "acoustic diode," envisioned by researchers...

Researchers have a new model for how the kidney repairs itself, a model that adds to a growing body of evidence that mature cells are far more plastic than had previously been imagined.

A research study provides the first evidence for beneficial effects of aerobic exercise on brain and memory in individuals with multiple sclerosis.

Who would have thought that the human body contains over 10 times the amount of bacterial cells as human cells? These bacteria - now collectively called the gut microbiota - number in their trillions and are made up of m...