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The cause of a rare type of ovarian cancer that most often strikes girls and young women has been uncovered by an international research team, according to a study. The findings revealed a 'genetic superhighway' mutation...

Investigators may have found a way to solve a problem that has plagued a group of drugs called ligand-mimicking integrin inhibitors, which have the potential to treat conditions ranging from heart attacks to cancer metas...

Warmer summers brought on by climate change will cause more deaths in London and southeast England than the rest of the country, scientists predict. In the most vulnerable districts, in London and the southeast, the odds...

By shifting evolution into reverse, it may be possible to use "green chemistry" to make a number of costly synthetic drugs as easily and cheaply as brewing beer. Normally, both evolution and synthetic chemistry proceed f...

Scientists report that compounds they hoped would "wake up" dormant reservoirs of HIV inside immune system T cells -- a strategy designed to reverse latency and make the cells vulnerable to destruction -- have failed to ...

NASA has released a new panorama of the Milky Way galaxy was created using two million photos over the course of 10 years. The result of the hard work is a 360-degree view of the Milky Way that can be explored at home on...

NASA is accepting proposals for its upcoming Asteroid Redirect Mission. The new initiative will attempt to capture and redirect an asteroid to an orbit around the moon, and the space agency is offering $6 million in tota...

What we know about statins comes almost entirely from commercial interests. So what we take for knowledge about their harms and benefits is actually information designed to optimize the drug makers' responsibility to max...

From liar's smirk to telltale pupils, your face is the blind spot that betrays you (full text available to subscribers)     

A new picture has emerged of the rise of oxygen on Earth. A growing body of data suggests the earliest photosynthesis evolved 600 million years before the Great Oxidation Event.

UK researchers found the risk of dying from heart or respiratory problems increased by more than 10 percent for every 1.8-degree-Fahrenheit increase in temperature during the summer months between 2001 and 2010.

India pushed up the Himalayas when it hit Asia, but it now seems the mountains only grew so exceptionally tall because Asia was scrunched by the impact     

These two models show the margins of continents incorporating new material as one plate drives into another. (looped)

U. Penn researchers have published promising results from what they claim is the first clinical trial of a genetic approach to fighting HIV/AIDS. Doctors removed HIV-positive patients' T cells and genetically modified a ...

A third set of images, this one from a French satellite, show potential objects floating in the southern Indian Ocean that could be linked to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which has been missing since March 8, when it d...

Potential treatment for deadly brain cancer; climate change shrinks crops; banking your own stem cells just in case.

From echos of the Big Bang to the breathing of the Amazon forest, we found some super cool stories in Science this week!

(University of Toronto) Scientists have a better way to study human proteins -- large molecules that are part of every cell in the body -- thanks to a new technology developed by University of Toronto researchers. The te...

(GFZ GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Helmholtz Centre) Volcanoes often develop outside the rift zone in an apparently unexpected location offset by tens of kilometers has remained unanswered. An international team of scien...

(Florida State University) Groundbreaking work by a team of chemists on a fringe element of the periodic table could change how the world stores radioactive waste and recycles fuel.

(Publicase Comunicação Científica) A new study published ahead of print in The FASEB Journal shows that heparin interactions with the terminal domains of a prion protein impair its conversion into scrapie prion, preve...

(University of Waterloo) In the world of quantum science, Alice and Bob have been talking to one another for years. Charlie joined the conversation a few years ago, but now scientists have measured that their communicati...