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(The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth) Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and Aeras, a global nonprofit biotech, announced a collaboration to jointly conduct a trial of a new vaccine against tuberculosis, one of...

The oldest example of a stick insect mimicking a plant has been unearthed in China. The mimicry allowed the insect to evade tree-climbing dinosaurs, mammals and birds that preyed on insects, research suggests.

Many people who undergo treatment for addiction will relapse to using drugs soon after their treatment ends, but a new study suggests that mindfulness meditation techniques may help prevent such relapses.

How different parenting styles can affect kids' weight.

Thick, steamy atmospheres full of mineral vapours would reveal young planets that have just suffered huge collisions like the ones that helped make Earth     

A newly described species of feathered dinosaur looked something like a 10-foot-tall chicken with claws. The crested dino lived around the same time as Tyrannosaurus rex.

A woman's "dying" fingertips -- which had turned black and scaly, and were covered in dead tissue -- were saved when she had surgery on the nerves along her spine, according to a new case report.

Meet Anzu – a feathered, flightless dinosaur that would have towered over humans and had forelimbs tipped with sharp claws     

The earliest known plant-mimicking stick insect has been found, preserved for 126 million years     

It's commonly believed that the ocean is blue because it's reflecting the blue sky. But this is a misconception.

A new technique may be 10,000 time more sensitive than existing methods.

Inspired by the space physics behind solar flares and the aurora, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton has uncovered a new kind of magnetic behavior that could help make nuclear fusion reac...

Researchers from the University of Melbourne and University of Sydney are confident their new reaserach results will make significant differences to the calculations of surface tension of water used by the next generatio...

Advanced societies frequently collapse unless steps are taken to regulate resource consumption and economic stratification.

Scientists have long wondered why some people develop Alzheimer's disease while others have healthy brains throughout their lifetime. Now, new research identifies a molecule that protects brain cells from the stress of a...

An iPhone app records samples of your voice to be converted into synthetic speech for someone who needs a similar voice     

A new form of radar that employs light rather than electronics could be used to better track airplanes, like the Malaysian Airlines flight that disappeared on March 8.

In 1929, bacteriologist Alexander Fleming discovered the first true antibiotic, penicillin, ushering in a new age of medicine. Since then, scientists have found dozens of antibiotics, which fight bacteria in a variety of...

The discovery of primordial ripples in space-time is exciting. But does it really herald a new era for cosmology?     

Scientists working on the world's leading particle collider experiments have joined forces, combined their data and produced the first joint result from Fermilab's Tevatron and CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC), past an...

A solar storm 2012 just missed Earth but the event had all the elements to create a truly spectacular event on our planet.

On everything from AIDS to vaccines, nearly half of American adults believe the federal government, corporations or a combination of the two are withholding valuable medical information from the public. A new survey foun...