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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...

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...

Starfish may have the incredible ability to regenerate their limbs, but when it comes to the power of sight, these marine creatures fall a bit short, a new study finds.

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     

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.

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.

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     

January sees the start of what has been billed as the largest-scale open-access initiative ever built: an international effort to switch the entire field of particle physics to open-access... --

A huge cloud of gas heading toward the black hole at the centre of our galaxy is getting stretched into spaghetti, but hasn't been devoured yet     

Prairie dogs have a lot more in common with the beer-guzzling, face-painted denizens of football stadiums than you might think. Both use a very important tool to interact with their neighbors: the wave. University of Man...

The number of obese adults in the developing world has almost quadrupled to 904 million in recent decades, overtaking the number in rich countries     

Scientists in Finland have been studying 2000 children (from 3 different socioeconomic regions in Europe) to try and determine why there is a rise in diabetes in countries with a high standard of living.

Fossilized skin reveals that ancient marine reptiles had dark coloration. The study analyzed leatherbacks, mosasaurs and ichthyosaurs.

Streams of the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the universe's matter may be steered by the sun's gravity, altering when it shows up on Earth     

The weird-looking elephant shark has hardly changed its genome in 400 million years, making it the slowest-evolving vertebrate yet