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This beautiful wallpaper is an archive image of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve in Alaska.

Mixing energy drinks with alcohol is riskier than just drinking alcohol alone, according to a new study that examines the impact of a growing trend among young adults.

A single dose of the hormone oxytocin, delivered via nasal spray, may improve the core social deficits in children with autism by making social interactions with other people more rewarding and more efficiently processed...

Our awareness of food waste is increasing all the time, yet we continue to throw away vast amounts of produce even when we don't need to.

Patients can have a hard time finding out exactly what their medical procedures will cost them, and a new study finds that hospitals often cannot provide price information for even simple procedures.

New research from Michigan State University casts doubt on a popular theory explaining how neutron stars heat up. It was previously believed a neutron star heats itself up, via nuclear reactions within the star's crust, ...

An astronaut's view of erupting Klyuchevskoy volcano, snapped Nov. 16, reveals how the tall peak towers above the Kamchatka Peninsula.

A mouse study finds that blocking two muscle receptors can stop sperm from ejaculating, a potentially reversible form of birth control for men who want their own pill.

After a Metro-North railroad train jumped off the tracks near where the Harlem River meets the Hudson River in the Bronx, New York City, on Sunday morning, the two most obvious questions are: How did it happen, and what ...

Talk about taking a dim view of things. Researchers have obtained ultrasharp images of weakly illuminated objects using a bare minimum of photons: mathematically stitching together information from... --

For children with autism, a dose of oxytocin -- the so-called "love hormone" -- seems to fine-tune the activity in brain areas linked to social interactions, according to a new study.

With the help of a new method called "dual-electrode photoelectrochemistry," University of Oregon scientists have provided new insight into how solar water-splitting cells work. An important and overlooked parameter, the...

It's been widely reported that football and other contact sports increase the risk of a debilitating neurological condition called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). But a new study finds little evidence to support ...

Hip pain is no longer reserved for older adults. More and more young, active people are developing this problem, which often requires surgery to repair.

Researchers show that synaptic health in the brain is closely linked to cognitive decline. Further, they discover that estrogen restores synaptic health and also improves working memory.

A study comparing the efficacy and tolerability of two popular osteoporosis drugs, denosumab and zoledronic acid, found that denosumab had a significantly greater effect on increasing spine bone mineral density and zoled...

Humble aluminum's plasmonic properties may make it far more valuable than gold and silver for certain applications, according to new research by Rice University scientists.

A chemical system developed by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago can efficiently perform the first step in the process of creating syngas, gasoline and other energy-rich products out of carbon dioxide....

Pythons can digest prey as big as they are. Now, a new, complete Burmese python gene sequence reveals how thousands of genes work together to enable this extreme eating ability.

Men aren't from Mars and women aren't from Venus, but their brains really are wired differently, a new study suggests. Male brains may be optimized for motor skills, and female brains may be optimized for combining analy...

The king cobra and Burmese python are the first snakes to have their genome sequenced, and the results show their genes are unusually prone to change     

Scientists have found a way to study sound waves from the early universe to learn more about its history and contents.  Baryonic acoustic oscillations are sound waves from the early universe. Scientists have found a way...