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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...

Researcher finds convincing evidence for water molecules inside Venus.

Rosetta, the European Space Agency's comet-chasing satellite, is getting a very public wake-up call on Jan. 20. The "Wake Up Rosetta" live stream event will begin at 4:15 a.m. EST.

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...

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.

Light from the activity of a distant black hole provides a first glimpse of the web of gas and dark matter that underpins the universe     

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.

(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...

(University of York) Research at the University of York's Structural Biology Laboratory, in collaboration with groups in Canada, the USA and Sweden, has begun to uncover how our gut bacteria metabolize the complex dietar...

(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.

(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...

(University of Cambridge) Research on first data release from Gaia-ESO project suggests the Milky Way formed by expanding out from the centre, and reveals new insights into the way our Galaxy was assembled.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) New approach developed at MIT could generate power from sunlight efficiently and on demand.

(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...

Scientists have found that chimpanzees, our closest living relatives with whom we share 98 percent of our genes, are able to use hand gestures to achieve shared goals. Humans working with chimps raised in captivity in th...

The Southern Alps, space junk and the Tarantula Nebula -- just a few of our favorite images for this week.

The European Space Agency's Rosetta satellite is currently hibernating, but the alarm clock is set for Jan. 20. The "Wake Up Rosetta" campaign is just the beginning for the ESA's satellite as it plans to rendezvous with ...