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(Weizmann Institute of Science) Weizmann Institute scientists have discovered a new cellular pathway implicated in Gaucher disease. Their findings may offer a new therapeutic target for the management of this disease, as...

Scientists have discovered a new cellular pathway implicated in Gaucher disease. Their findings may offer a new therapeutic target for the management of this disease, as well as other related disorders.

Researcher finds convincing evidence for water molecules inside Venus.

Researchers have discovered the genetic machinery that turns a common gut bacterium into the Swiss Army knife of the digestive tract -- helping us metabolize a main component of dietary fiber from the cell walls of fruit...

Researchers have discovered the fundamental biology of calcium waves in relation to heart arrhythmias. The finding outlines the discovery of this fundamental physiological process that researchers

In a paper published, a team reports that a protein they show is normally involved in healing wounds and maintaining homeostasis in skin tissue is also, under certain conditions, a promoter of invasive and metastatic ski...

Spiders twerking for survival, gravity-defying secret found and an epic undersea battle are just a few of the cool stories we found in Science this week.

A handful of companies are developing algorithms that can read the human emotions behind nuanced and fleeting facial expressions to maximize advertising and market research campaigns. Major corporations including Procter...

Sea Shepherd is continuing its campaign to raise awareness about the recent capture of approximately 250 bottlenose dolphins in Taiji, Japan's infamous 'killing cove'. A combined five pods have been held in the cove sinc...

Researchers have decoded the genome of the hookworm, Necator americanus, finding clues to how it infects and survives in humans and to aid in development of new therapies to combat hookworm disease.

Hookworms are parasitic worms, and they currently infect about 700 million people in the world. Now, researchers say they've decoded this blood-sucker's genome, which could lead to better ways to prevent or treat the con...

Visitors to the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C., can finally get a glimpse of the panda cub Bao Bao. The baby bear made her public debut on Saturday (Jan. 18), but apparently slept through much of it.

The most intense El Niño events may soon hit every 10 years, instead of every 20 years, thanks to warming water in the eastern Pacific Ocean, a new study predicts.

Extreme El Niño events that could kill tens of thousands of people will become twice as common because of climate change     

More employees plan to look for new jobs this year than since the recession started. What's driving them?

The drive among students to become entrepreneurs when they grow up decreases as they get older, new research shows.

Companies looking to hire new CEO's or any manager could use a new computer test to determine if the prospective boss is a little too self absorbed.

(Cleveland Clinic) Cleveland Clinic researchers have identified a protein in the brain that plays a critical role in the memory loss seen in Alzheimer's patients, according to a study to be published in the journal Natur...

(Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) EPFL scientists have uncovered the mechanism by which novel, revolutionary solar cells based on lead iodide perovskite light-absorbing semiconductor transfer electrons along t...

(Terry Collins Assoc) The International Union for the Conservation of Nature is intensifying global efforts to safeguard whales and other marine species from the harms of powerful noise used in seismic seafloor surveys b...

(University of Edinburgh) Renewable tidal energy sufficient to power about half of Scotland could be harnessed from a single stretch of water off the north coast of the country, engineers say.

(University of California - Santa Cruz) Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in...