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For the first time, gene therapy has been used to treat a rare cause of blindness called choroideremia - the results may be relevant to more common eye diseases     

Americans use millions of plastic water bottles everyday, many of which end up in landfills. Levi's has found a better way to use those discarded bottles, by incorporating them (8 at a time) into a new pair of jeans.

Two adults with a rare disease that causes gradual loss of eyesight had their vision improved after being treated with a new gene therapy, according to preliminary results from a new study.

She may only be 10 years old, but Claire Dworsky has already won an award from the National Science Foundation and recently turned her sights to a debate in San Francisco about whether to use artificial turf at the socce...

Tree House Masters' Pete Nelson talks to Livescience.com's Rich Bonaduce about building extravagant, yet eco-friendly, tree houses. You may never want to come down.

The discovery of what is essentially a 3D version of graphene -- the 2D sheets of carbon through which electrons race at many times the speed at which they move through silicon -- promises exciting new things to come for...

North Carolina State University researchers have used silver nanowires to develop wearable, multifunctional sensors that could be used in biomedical, military or athletic applications, including new prosthetics, robotic ...

For people with elevated blood sugar levels, taking Chinese herbal medicines may reduce the risk of developing diabetes, early research from China suggests.

A camera trap snapped the first ever pictures of the elusive snow leopard in Uzbekistan. The new images confirm that there are at least two individual snow leopards in the Gissar Nature Reserve.

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Veiled by forest cover, stone walls, old farmsteads and other features become visible in these airborne scans of New England towns.

For some time, scientists have known that queen insects give off chemical signals that prevent workers from reproducing. When a queen dies, the signals wear off, and the workers become fertile again. Now, a team of resea...

Like the strings on a violin or the pipes of an organ, the proteins in the human body vibrate in different patterns, scientists have long suspected.

The manuscript containing the drawing of what resembles a kangaroo was acquired by Les Enluminures Gallery in New York. Les Enluminures Gallery

Queen insects, from ants to wasps, all use the same chemical messengers to stop their workers reproducing     

How carefully have you crafted the language on your Kickstarter page? New research suggests that using the wrong phrases could kill your campaign -- and the right ones just might get you funded.

The perception that people can sense things they haven't actually seen comes from a normal quirk of human's visual processing, not supernatural ability, new research suggests.

CERN, the Swiss laboratory that houses the Large Hadron Collider, is opening up one beam line for high school students to perform their own experiment.

A new survey finds that while the proportion of Americans who believe in climate change holds steady, the number of the uncertain has dropped and the ranks of the disbelievers have grown.

The aging pipelines that carry natural gas to homes and businesses in Washington, D.C., are the cause of thousands of natural gas leaks detected in the city, some of which were 10 times higher than the threshold needed t...

All the latest on newscientist.com: how culling the best can make things better, seven climate sinners, Google's Nest and quantum computer, and more     

A recent study found that people overestimate the amount of time they spent exercising by an hour. Here are tips for making sure you're not lying to yourself about how much you're exercising.