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When a tree that stands in the city's way is designated for the chop, many of us just stand by and watch it fall. Don' t be so resigned, says Stephanie Pain (full text available to subscribers)     

Fungal lung infections like those caused by Histoplasma capsulatum are difficult to treat because it's hard to get rid of the fungal cells without damaging human cells. A new way to mark fungal cells by making them glow ...

Diabetic patients treated in the emergency department who were enrolled in a program in which they received automated daily text messages improved their level of control over their diabetes and their medication adherence...

A cognitive-behavioral intervention known as problem-solving education may help reduce parental stress and depressive symptoms immediately after their child is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, according to a stud...

Being overweight or obese are risk factors for myocardial infarction (heart attack) and ischemic heart disease regardless of whether individuals also have the cluster of cardiovascular risk factors known as metabolic syn...

Patients with traumatic brain injury had increased deposits of ²-Amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer Disease, in some areas of their brains, a new study has found.

The president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios has spent a lifetime bringing richly imaginative stories to life on the silver screen, from "Toy Story" to "Monsters, Inc." Catmull spoke to a packed audience \abo...

An expedition to probe the deep recesses of a cave that may contain fossilized specimens of early humans is currently underway in South Africa. A team of paleoanthropologists is exploring the Rising Star Cave at the Crad...

Super Typhoon Haiyan slammed into the Philippines on Nov. 8, 2013, creating an enormous storms surge that devastated the region and likely killed thousands.

Simple Answers xkcd Is technology making everything amazing and no one happy, as Louis C.K. contends? Or is technology making everything amazing and everyone happy? Or is technology just screwing everything up? There's s...

Car Force One has some of the most advanced tech on wheels in a ride fit for a president, but priced for the Average Joe.

The sun's polarity is getting closer to flipping. The star's northern hemisphere's polarity has already reversed, and the southern hemisphere should follow suit soon, scientists say.

Las Vegas is installing Intellistreets, a brand of street lighting that is capable of recording video and audio of pedestrians and motorists. What happens in Vegas, it seems, no longer stays in Vegas.

As the Philippines assesses the damage caused by typhoon Haiyan, scientists calculate that storms like this release carbon from forests, worsening climate change     

It's all about angle, guys. And while reducing splash-back in a urinal is feasible it could take a sharp shooter to do so in a conventional toilet, researchers say. Take-home: Sit.

An astronaut on the International Space Station has seen the deadly Typhoon Haiyan from orbit. See astronaut Karen Nyberg's amazing photo of the super typhoon.

From a distance, insects can appear smooth and sleek, but get close enough and hundreds of tiny bristles called setae come into focus. Suddenly what once seemed smooth now resembles a porcupine terror. (Clip of a fruit f...

The first traces of life found in glass from an impact crater supports the idea that microbes travelling on space rocks could have seeded the solar system     

Researchers simulated a man peeing into a urinal at different angles, finding to avoid pee splash-back men should decrease the angle of flow.

Devastation wrought on Tacloban was probably intensified by a landscape that funnelled a 5-metre-high storm surge over the Philippine city     

The U.S. military is assisting with recovery efforts and humanitarian relief in the Philippines in the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan, a devastating storm that is estimated to have killed more than 10,000 people.

This space wallpaper shows a view of a three-dimensional visualization of gas in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253 (The Sculptor Galaxy) as observed by the ALMA radio telescope in Chile.