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In October, an ambitious, collaborative genetic research program based at Baylor University became the largest cloud-based genomic research project to date, by its own account. As part of Cohorts for Heart and Aging Rese...

Super typhoon Haiyan was significantly stronger than Hurricane Katrina, due to different atmospheric conditions in the western Pacific.

Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPET) assessment and exercise training in an elderly population is safe and well tolerated, according to the results of a new feasibility study, conducted in the UK.

A technique that mixes sound and heat can map slow-flowing blood in surface tissues, which could help reveal tiny but dangerous clots or tumour growth     

Everyone knows what it's like to be uncertain - at least, humans do. But are non-human animals ever uncertain?

'Til You Drop Robinsons Place Manila, Philippines Ninjakeg, CC BY-SA 3.0 You've seen it happen. One day, you're aspirationally browsing performance outerwear online; the next day, you're seeing ads for Primaloft and Gore...

From the production of tougher, more durable smart phones and other electronic devices, to a wider variety of longer lasting biomedical implants, bulk metallic glasses are poised to be mainstay materials for the 21st Cen...

The Tough Mudder, an extreme sports event that bills itself as "probably the toughest event on the planet," resulted in injuries ranging from multiple electrical burns to seizure-induced Todd's paralysis. A case series o...

Posting the calorie content of menu items at major fast-food chains in Philadelphia, per federal law, does not change purchasing habits or decrease the number of calories that those customers consume, researchers have re...

Initiatives to market African tree products are taking root.

From the production of tougher, more durable smart phones and other electronic devices, to a wider variety of longer lasting biomedical implants, bulk metallic glasses are poised to be mainstay materials for the 21st Cen...

A mild electrical stimulation to a specific brain area could be an effective treatment for some patients with eating disorders such as bulimia, researchers say.

Typhoon Haiyan dwarfed recent big storms, but wasn't the largest one recorded.

Einstein in 1931Image: Wikimedia Commons What does it take to convince Albert Einstein he was wrong? According to new scholarship and contrary to popular belief, not even the legendary astronomer Edwin Hubble backed up b...

The discovery of the once-elusive Higgs boson particle after a decades-long hunt was widely regarded as a major breakthrough, but physicist Stephen Hawking thinks the field would actually be more "interesting" if the Hig...

Transgender is a term describing people whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that generally associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth.

The just-released papers spotlight the U.S. government's desire for tight security at Area 51. The site was photographed with American reconnaissance assets to better assess what the Soviet Union's spy satellites might b...

A 33-year-old woman in Canada who had large, abnormal pulses that were clearly visible in her neck ultimately needed surgery to combat a bacterial infection in her heart, according to a new report of her case.

Despite decades of brewing tea in a whistling kettle, the source and mechanism of this siren sound of comfort has never been fully described scientifically. Acknowledging the vibrations made by the build-up of steam esca...

A diluted bleach bath protected mice from radiation burns and made their skin look younger and healthier     

Skin provides a first line of defense against viruses, bacteria and parasites that might otherwise make people ill. When an injury breaks that barrier, a systematic chain of molecular signaling launches to close the woun...

In a new study, researchers evaluated the persistence of rAAV-mediated expression the gene encoding M-type ±-1 antitrypsin in patients that were AAT deficient