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Rattlesnakes are found throughout North and South America. Their distinctive rattle warns intruders to stay away!

The early deaths of modern people in Africa who have albinism, a lack of body pigment, suggest that skin cancer pushed humanity to evolve black skin coloration.

People who are obese spend less than 1 minute per day doing vigorous physical activity, a new study finds.

The action of a little-understood piece of genetic material could one day help treat a common skin disease.

Men planning to have kids may want to keep an eye on their biological clock: A growing body of research suggests that children born to older fathers are at higher risk for psychiatric and academic problems.

People in a vegetative state showed signs of awareness after electric brain stimulation - and minimally conscious people were able to communicate again     

Want to secure a job in your field after graduation? Here are some tips for current college students to help you get hired right out of school.

The discovery of a whale mass grave in Chile in 2010 left scientists with more questions than answers. Scientists stumbled onto what was described as a crime scene featuring the bones of 40 whales and further investigati...

Hillsborough County, Fla., which includes Tampa, is being overrun by a striped, four-legged reptile with a voracious appetite and a bite capable of turning human fingers into powder. The exotic black-and-white tegu, nati...

A recent image from the International Space Station (ISS) shows in stark detail the utter lack of development in North Korea -- widely considered to be a "rogue" state -- compared to next-door neighbor South Korea, a rap...

JILA physicists used an ultrafast laser and help from German theorists to discover a new semiconductor quasiparticle--a handful of smaller particles that briefly condense into a liquid-like droplet.

The oldest and greatest graveyard of extinct marine mammals now sits under a highway in South America – but researchers got access first     

Some investigation into your ancestry can be done by hand or online, but the serious genealogist may want to invest in software for tracing family tress. Here are some good bets.

Made out of a cluster of electrons and positive charges called 'holes,' the newly created quasiparticle could help physicists locate the boundaries between the quantum world of the very small and the classical world of t...

A quantum droplet of an "electric liquid" - a new kind of quasi-particle - can be squeezed from a semiconductor by shooting it with lasers     

Physicists have created a new composite "quasiparticle" that could help probe the quantum mechanics of many particles working together   --

More than 700 possible planets found by a NASA telescope have been verified as real, and most live in scaled-down versions of our inner solar system     

All the latest on newscientist.com: how blender brains made us human, India's astronaut capsule, robot knits new human body parts, SOS app and more     

An alliance of pirates preyed on ships laden with treasure, outmatched Britain's Royal Navy, elected their own admiral and, ultimately, were destroyed in a cataclysmic battle against a Dutch fleet in 1614.

Have you ever watched a mixed martial arts bout and thought, This could use weapons, and also Iron Man. Congratulations, crazy person with the imagination of a small child: Unified Weapons Master has you covered, and the...

New evidence reveals the adventures of a 17th-century pirate alliance in what is now Munster, Ireland, who were destroyed in a cataclysmic battle.

There have been drastic rises in infant mortality, suicide and depression since Greece made deep healthcare cuts – but it doesn't have to be like this