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Among Parkinson's disease (PD) patients, female, black, and Asian patients are substantially less likely to receive proven deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery to improve tremors and motor symptoms, according to a new re...

Dogs apparently prefer to poop while aligned with the north-south axis of the Earth's magnetic field. That's the surprising conclusion of scientists who observed dogs pooping and peeing for two years.

Strange circular towers found in the Amazon jungle were made by spiders to hatch their eggs, new research found. But the spider species that made the towers remains a mystery.

Lots of organisms, from bacteria to deer,  can sense magnetic fields. It's an ability known as magnetoception. Birds and bats use the Earth's field to navigate, and naked mole rats may use it to orient their nests - alt...

Myers-Briggs personality type may contribute to whether one believes the Earth was created in six days versus a more symbolic view of the Bible's Book of Genesis, new research suggests.

Night sky photographer LeRoy Zimmerman captured these amazing images of aurora borealis over Alaska. See how he captured the views near Fairbanks in early December.

Amateur astronomer David Ellison captured this beautiful image of the Horsehead and Flame Nebulas from his backyard in Chatanooga, Tenn. See how he did it here.

Bizarre electrical flashes known as earthquake lights may occur at rifts where a buildup of stress causes the flow of electrical current from magmatic rocks, new research suggests.

Contrary to earlier belief, even the middle- and lower-class residents of the doomed city of Pompeii had a fairly varied diet, new research suggests.

In collaboration with Broad Institute scientists, Daniel Kohn created this art work inspired by the ideas of genomics. The piece spanned seven floors and 1572 individual pieces that moved, morphed, grew and evolved over ...

The eruption at the Pu'u 'O'o cone on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been going for 31 years, teaching volcanologists plenty about how the volcano works.

Forensic analysis of a prehistoric skull gives the UK's most iconic monument a human face     

Wildlife experts in Utah have found the culprit behind an unusual string of bald eagle deaths: West Nile virus.

All the latest on newscientist.com: a land of make-believe, buying clothes online that fit, charging gadgets on the go, a wrinkly planet and more     

NASA satellite imagery has captured the enormity of the first snowstorm of 2014.

The typical packing plastic that comes with most consumer gadgets is far from environmentally friendly, but an innovative company has created a new mushroom based material that can be thrown in your garden instead of the...

It may look like a circuit board stuck to the ceiling – but this sticky-footed climbing robot is paving the way for a mission in orbit     

Typical packing plastic is terrible for the environment, derived from petroleum and destined for the garbage. By using mushroom roots, Ecovative Design created a completely bio-degradable packing material made from farm ...

Nick Morozovsky, an engineering graduate student at UC San Diego, exemplifies how much you can do with how little these days. His SkySweeper robot that moves along cables like an inchworm, using naught but an Arduino mic...

High politics meet big money and national pride on the Caribbean island of Roatán, where tourists flock to amazing Mayan ruins that no Maya ever saw (full text available to subscribers)     

A 13-year-old girl in California continues to be kept on a ventilator after being declared brain-dead by doctors. Although a brain-dead person is not legally alive, how much of the body will keep on working with the help...

Quantum computing is getting the headlines these days, with buzz among scientists of giga-powered number-crunching and unbreakable encryption.