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While cooking at home is cheaper than going out to restaurants, not all home-cooked meals are alike. A new study shows shopping for healthier foods at the grocery store is more expensive than picking out unhealthier food...

Eating right really does cost more, according to a new review study that analyzed diet and price information from 10 countries.

Colossal spiral-shaped flows of super-hot plasma have been found on the sun, completing a nearly half-century-long quest to confirm their existence, scientists say.

Dyslexia, the learning disability that makes reading and processing speech a challenge, may result from problems with brain connectivity, a new study suggests. Ultimately, understanding the roots of dyslexia could lead t...

Formula 1 racing is so loud that fans would have to wear both earplugs and earmuffs to enjoy the races at safe noise levels, new research suggests.

Severe hypothermia can cause people to lose consciousness, and may result in death. But before losing consciousness, people suffering from hypothermia have been known to exhibit some bizarre behaviors that may be a last-...

Drinking alcohol is common around the holidays, but how does alcohol affect your medications? Here's a look at eight common medications, and how they interact with alcohol.

Strange ribbons of matter spiralling out of a bright galaxy suggest that it hosts a pair of black holes that are about to collide     

(Phys.org) --The Information Age will get a major upgrade with the arrival of quantum processors many times faster and more powerful than today's supercomputers. For the benefits of this new Information Age 2.0 to be ful...

Watch out, DEET – identifying which neurons mosquitoes use to sniff us out is paving the way for more effective, and more pleasant, repellents     

Sophias and Jacksons will likely be toddling around preschools in just a few years, as these names snag top spots on BabyCenter's annual baby name survey. And they may bump into a Cheese or Feline, some of the weirdest n...

A simple mechanical model to effectively implement the well-known double-stranded structure and the elasticity of DNA on a nano-meter scale has been developed by Jae-Hyung Jeon and Wokyung Sung of Pohang University of Sc...

A new study that tracked more than 2,000 lemon sharks over two decades suggests pregnant females return to their birthplace to have babies. Matt Potenski

Human beings don’t come with power sockets, but a growing numbers of us have medical implants that run off electricity. To keep our bionic body parts from powering down, a group of Arizona researchers is developing a s...

Weak, slippery clay that looks like scaly black dragon skin is the key to explaining the 2011 Japan earthquake's devastating impact.

JILA researchers have developed a method of spinning electric and magnetic fields around trapped molecular ions to measure whether the ions' tiny electrons are truly round--research with major implications for future sci...

Slippery clay in an unusually slim fault zone produced the huge slip seen in the Tohoku quake of 2011, which has even changed the local gravity field     

People with dyslexia struggle with reading and writing because one part of the brain that deals with sound doesn't "talk" to an area dealing with language     

For the first time, scientists have observed lemurs returning to the same caves every night to sleep, rather than bedding down in trees. Early human ancestors slept in caves, suggesting this is a deep primate behavior.

A group of 41 pilot whales has been trapped in a remote area of the Everglades National Park. Workers have returned to the area today (Dec. 5) to prevent them from become stranded.

California scientists think they've found a new weapon in the war on mosquitoes: hitting them where they sniff us out. Their discovery might lead to rum raisin-scented bug sprays that mask you from mosquitoes, and mint-s...

In a technical tour de force, UC San Francisco (UCSF) scientists have determined, at near-atomic resolution, the structure of a protein that plays a central role in the perception of pain and heat.