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Titan harbors about 2,000 cubic miles of liquid methane and ethane on its frigid surface. The hydrocarbons are contained in an area near Titan's north pole that's just 660,000 square miles in size, a region slightly larg...

A new way to weigh the mass of distant alien worlds could help reveal key details about how friendly they may be to life, researchers say.

UBC researchers have discovered a universal electronic state that controls the behavior of high-temperature superconducting copper-oxide ceramics.

The unobservable factors that underpin the infant mortality gap between blacks and whites have persisted for more than 20 years and now appear to play a larger role than the observable factors, according to a new study.

A new study is the first study to link anxiety to a greater risk of stroke.

How African-American girls and women perceive physical fitness are addressed by scholar, with recommendations for new ways to promote fitness.

Women who do not gain enough weight during pregnancy are at increased risk of losing their baby in its first year of life, according to a new study. Gaining more weight than recommended was not a risk factor for infant m...

Researchers have reported the successful transformation of vegetable oils to a semisolid form using low-calorie sugars as a structuring agent. The findings portend the development of alternatives to structured oil produc...

Amid soaring health-care costs, nurse home visits can save health dollars while helping families, says a study. For every $1 spent on nurse home visits for newborns, $3 were saved in health expenditures. Program particip...

Despite recent advances in prevention and treatment of most vision loss attributed to diabetes, a new study shows that fewer than half of Americans with damage to their eyes from diabetes are aware of the link between th...

Tempromandibular pain disorders (TMDs) are characterized by a dysfunction of the TMD joint and cause orofacial pain, masticatory dysfunction or both. A new study showed that standard treatment approaches yield modest to ...

In two separate clinical trials, researchers have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at least for a few months -- long enough for ...

As findings show the harm caused by antibacterial soaps, their key ingredients may soon be removed from the U.S. marketplace.

Tens of millions of consumers are expected to sign up for healthcare via the new health insurance exchanges set up by the federal and state governments. Using simulated exchanges modeled on the design of the actual excha...

Can economics save the planet's forests?

Emperor penguins are lords of the cold. They thrive in frigid conditions that would make human popsicles out of anyone relying on only the hair nature gave them for protection. Many researchers have bundled up and braved...

The USGS pushes back against criticism by a U.S. senator with an explanation of why its drones monitor floods, volcanoes and wildlife populations across the nation.

From pandemic fungus to robot insurrection, here are 9 apocalyptic visions that scientists foresee.

If humans can figure out a way to change their outlook and consciously control the planet in a functional way, civilization could become almost immortal, one researcher says.

Though it was hailed as a triumph for the "Standard Model" of physics -- the reigning model of fundamental forces and particles -- physicists were quick to emphasize that last year's discovery of the Higgs boson still le...

First produced in the mid-19th century, commercial Christmas cards have spawned a multimillion-dollar industry. Here's a look at some images that may have filled mailboxes in the Victorian era.

DJI's Phantom In Flight Also pictured: NYC's famous Flatiron Building. Dan Bracaglia Ah, the good old days when your microwave stayed put where you left it. Introducing autonomous robots into everyday life is not going t...