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A veteran Loch Ness monster spotter says there have been no "confirmed sightings" of the legendary creature since 1925. Wikimedia Commons What happened to Nessie?

British scientists have uncovered the world's oldest footprints found outside of Africa. Discovered along the Norfolk coast, the prints are about 800,000 years old. YouTube

Hot flashes, depression, and most of all, anxiety, affect the thinking skills of midlife women with HIV, so screening for and treating their anxiety may be especially important in helping them function, according to a st...

Medics have spoken about their role treating the injured following the typhoon that hit the Philippines in what they believe was the UK's first joint civilian and military humanitarian response effort. The model, which s...

Laparoscopic diaphragm mapping - an electronic reading of the diaphragm nerves - is safe and can be performed in multiple centers with success, a new study shows. Early diaphragm mapping can quickly determine if a phreni...

The good news: More people survive stroke now than 10 years ago due to improved treatment and prevention. The bad news: Women who survive stroke have a worse quality of life than men, according to a study published.

In a new study, results show that African-Americans were 39 times more likely to die of a stroke if they were exposed to an infection.

Getting in the right shape might be just as important in a biology lab as a gym. Shape is thought to play an important role in the effectiveness of cells grown to repair or replace damaged tissue in the body. To help des...

In Milton Keynes, 75 miles north of London, the UK is launching its first all-electric buses. The years-long pilot program consists of eight buses traveling a 15-mile route between the ...

Dragonfly mating involves violent battles, flashy courtship dances and heart-shaped coitus.

While men are quicker to change employers today than they were 30 years ago, women stick with their jobs for significantly longer than they used to.

An unbelievable ice cave, our electric Earth and the Olympic Games in Sochi from space - a few of our amazing picks from this week.

Can the coal industry blame its fading status on the federal government?

Why would Shell abandon massive amounts of Arctic oil?

Eat a chocolate a day, but check the label first.

It's your worst winter nightmare: the temperatures drop, and then the heat and power goes out. It's been a reality for many Americans during recent snowstorms, thanks to the many ways that severe winter weather can have ...

With a flurry of winter storms hitting the Northeast this week, we had some snow on the brain. So we decided to talk to an expert on the topic. David Robinson is a Rutgers University scientist, and when he's not performi...

There are alternatives to culling animals in cities, so why does the practice continue?

A subduction zone is a collision between two of Earth's tectonic plates, where one plate sinks into the mantle underneath the other plate.

The Permian Period lasted from 299 million to 251 million years ago. Two groups of animals that dominated the period would later branch into mammals and reptiles.

This week in science, we learned about a magnetic internal compass that salmon use to navigate; responded to some creationist questions and arguments; and got a look at a wobbly little planet in the Cygnus constellation ...

Quite simply because the science of crystallography has revolutionised how we live - and yet few people know about it.