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Gut bugs can change the way our brains work, offering new ways to relieve problems like stress, anxiety and depression, say John Cryan and Timothy Dinan     

The common skin growth called a skin tag, or acrochordon, usually develops in folds of skin and causes little to no harm. Still, these growths can be irritating, and doctors can easily remove them.

(Phys.org) --Piezoelectrics--materials that can change mechanical stress to electricity and back again--are everywhere in modern life. Computer hard drives. Loud speakers. Medical ultrasound. Sonar. Though piezoelectrics...

Apparently rats raised at Disney aren't prepared for the real world. A new study warns that Florida's efforts to breed endangered Key Largo woodrats in captivity are doomed.

The first sighting of wind from a young solar twin suggests that our sun was a weakling in its youth, which might have allowed Mars to play host to water     

This week we have a very special guest on the podcast: astronaut Chris Hadfield. Hadfield is the first Canadian astronaut to space walk, and the first Canadian astronaut to command a spaceship (the ISS). He has flown on ...

Rather than protecting you from degenerative disease, popping an antioxidant-packed vitamin seems to increase cancer risk – we now have an idea why     

A winter storm caused gridlock as far south as Alabama, when snow turned to ice on streets and people abandoned their vehicles.

Candida yeast, producer of diaper rash and thrush, was experimented on in the microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station in 2012. Principal investigator Sheila Nielson-Preiss talks about the findings...

Small rural communities across the state could see their water run out in as little as two months, a new report from the California Department of Public Health suggests.

For a limited time, Pikes Peak is Joel Dressen Peak and Colorado's highest mountain will bear Peyton Manning's name as the governor of Colorado finds an appropriately outdoorsy way to honor the Super Bowl-bound Broncos f...

Once again, a cruise ship is limping into port carrying hundreds of passengers and crew sickened by norovirus. But what exactly is norovirus, and why does it spread so easily on cruise ships?

Over the past few days, the media has cried out the recent proclamation from Stephen Hawking that black holes, a mystery of both science and science fiction, do not exist.

A killer winter storm paralyzed the South yesterday, but it was sunny and warm in Alaska, with record high temperatures. What's up with this weather?

Normally when you drop a drinking glass on the floor it shatters. But, in future, thanks to a technique developed in McGill's Department of Mechanical Engineering, when the same thing happens the glass is likely to simpl...

If astronauts are to terraform Mars, agriculture may rely on Earth microbes improving Martian soil.

For the first time, scientists have created a map of the surface of a failed star. The map shows the weather on the surface of WISE J104915.57-531906.1B (called Luhman 16B for short), the nearest brown dwarf to Earth.

From restaurant music that only certain tables can hear to flying emails, the ability to place sound exactly where you want it has all kinds of unusual uses     

Using the new method, lymphocytes were converted into stem cells (marked in green), which were used to create a mouse embryo with a beating heart.

Some 300 sexual hookups between Neanderthals and modern humans could explain the lurking caveman DNA, say the scientists who found those genes have influenced humans' skin and hair.

For some men, taking testosterone may triple the risk of having a heart attack, according to a new study.

A behavior predicted by the famous physicist Paul Dirac in 1931 has been shown in a system of ultracooled atoms in the lab. The system mimics a magnetic monopole, which has only one pole, passing through an electron.