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The function of two tumor-suppressing genes could play a vital role in helping to control obesity and other diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

The bacteria in your gut today may not be the same tomorrow, depending on what kinds of food you eat, a new study suggests.

Though humans pride themselves in their abilities to snap self-portraits with flick of a wrist and help of a smart phone, some members of the wild animal world have caught on to the trend and have taken part in the craze...

Research on drugs to combat a flu pandemic and on plants' resistance to ozone swept top honors in the 2013 Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. A student from California and a team of three students from ...

A thriving community of single-celled microbes that consume carbon dioxide for food populate Antarctica's glacial Lake Whillans, the shallow lake buried under thousands of feet of ice.

Scientists are studying how the warming climate is effecting the vegetation on Greenland's tundra, where woody shrubs are replacing grasslands, which could change how much carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere.

Let's all give ourselves a well-deserved pat on the back, because according to an annual measurement of the U.S.'s overall health, Americans made healthier living choices in 2013. The report, released Wednesday, shows th...

Google Glass has been making a splash in the tech world, but the high-tech spectacles could also be useful for teaching science. Here at LiveScience, we took Glass for a test-drive while we performed a simple science exp...

A computer's microphone and speakers can covertly send and receive data.

Wormholes and entanglement--two of science fiction's favorite concepts from modern physics--may in reality be two sides of the same coin, physicists say. The findings may offer a way to solve... --

The Curiosity Mars mission's successes make it a strange time for NASA to make funding changes that risk the careers of a generation of planetary scientists     

There is an optimal amount of strain that a beating heart can generate and still beat at its usual rate, once per second. Researchers have now shown that this "sweet spot" depends on the stiffness of the collagen framewo...

Comet ISON did not end up being the "comet of the century" as many hoped but scientists are still excited about the comet even after its demise. NASA presented the last days of ISON and discussed the final moment of the ...

Mars One 2018 Lander Concept Art Bryan Versteeg and Mars One Yesterday, Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced the companies it hopes will build the technology necessary for the first private mi...

Insects Travis Rathbone Five years ago, Richard Guiler and Tom Vaneck were sitting at a bar a few blocks from their office, trying to take their minds off work. For nearly a year, the two engineers had been struggling to...

The classified drone, dubbed RQ-180, is being tested at Area 51, a clandestine military base in the Nevada desert that has famously been used to test different spy planes since the 1950s. The is designed conduct surveill...

FACET An image of airplane traffic from the simulation tool FACET. Juan Alonso "When space traffic becomes routine, there's going to be significant conflict between commercial air traffic and space traffic," says Juan Al...

Make a gelatin scaffold, add a pinch of brain tissue with the cells removed, followed by stem cells - and watch the neurons grow     

Researchers say that a drug approved to treat lung cancer substantially shrank tumors in mice that were caused by a rare form of bone cancer called chordoma.

If you can't remember all your passwords, take heart: hardware tokens that can't be cloned will soon offer secure access to your digital life     

The current emergency in Shanghai comes at the end of a year in which China's environmental crisis reached a tipping point.

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