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It is freezing here in the U.S. as the "polar vortex" with its icy winds now torments nearly 200 million people nationwide. Millions of Americans woke up Tuesday to record lows as they braced for some of the coldest weat...

Recording goals in a fitness diary, reflecting on the successes and failures and being held to account by others are some of the key strategies that have been found to maximize the achievement of goals to get fit.

The ancient Mycenaeans inspired Homer's "Odyssey" and "Iliad," and perhaps Greek cooking, too. More than 3,000 years ago, they used portable grill pits and non-stick pans to make souvlaki and bread, new cooking experimen...

Next time your smartphone runs out of juice miles from anywhere, perk it up with a jolt of hydrogen power from a portable fuel cell     

Even when a medication works, half of its impact on a patient may be due to one aspect of the placebo effect: the positive message that a doctor provides when prescribing the treatment, according to a new study.

The elephant shark, a fish with a trunk-like snout found in the waters off southern Australia and New Zealand, is like a "living fossil," its genome hardly changed since it first evolved 400 million years ago. That's acc...

A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and ...

A new kind of battery designed by Harvard University scientists and engineers could unlock the potential of renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

The superstar space telescope is using the gravity of far-off galaxies as lenses to peer more deeply into space than ever before     

In the preclinical study, researchers developed a bio-inspired adhesive that could rapidly attach biodegradable patches inside a beating heart -- in the exact place where congenital holes in the heart occur, such as with...

The information that doctors provide when prescribing drug therapies has long been thought to play a role in the way that patients respond to drug therapies. Now an innovative study of migraine headache confirms that a p...

A simple blood test that can locate gene defects associated with cancer? New research suggests the technology may not be too far off.

Researchers studying the genetics of childhood cancers now have access to a large and growing set of genomic data through the Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub).

Scientists have made new findings on a system in the brain that naturally moderates the effects of stress.

The supermassive singularity at the center of our galaxy (Sgr A*) flares in X-ray radiation every 5 - 10 days. Astronomers swing NASA's Swift XRT spacecraft to spy on the 4 million solar mass black hole every few days.

Loud booms startled sleeping Canadians last week when bitterly cold temperatures triggered an unusual weather event called frost quakes.

Text from a recently translated Hebrew document appears to reference the location of several ancient Biblical treasures, and even mentions the famed Ark of the Covenant. According to Live Science, the document, called th...

How did youthful galaxies in the early universe fatten up to become the behemoths we see today? One explanation, put forth more than a decade ago, is that galaxies in the early universe supped on... --

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md.--More galaxies are separated by 450 million light-years than by any other large distance, astronomers have found in the most precise measurement yet of this key cosmic distance... --

The five Great Lakes, in all their glory, barely peak out from the veil of clouds and whooshing snowfall above them in a new satellite image captured Monday (Jan. 6) as the Arctic's polar vortex barreled southward.

The Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey makes the most precise calibration yet of the universe's "standard ruler" - Today the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) Collaboration announced that BOSS has measu...

From making us better drivers to improving the chances of getting pregnant, an explosion in tools to record our everyday lives will influence how we live