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When Hurricane Sandy struck the Eastern Seaboard in October 2012, it left a trail of devastation and heartache in its wake. Now, the U.S. government is considering a multibillion-dollar plan to build artificial islands o...

Polymer materials are usually thermal insulators. But by harnessing an electropolymerization process to produce aligned arrays of polymer nanofibers, researchers have developed a thermal interface material able to conduc...

Use of the drug aleglitazar, which has shown the ability to lower glucose levels and have favorable effects on cholesterol, did not reduce the risk of cardiovascular death, heart attack or stroke among patients with type...

New research indicates that obesity in the general population may be genetically linked to how our bodies digest carbohydrates. People usually have two copies of the gene AMY1, but in some regions of our DNA there can be...

Poor blood pressure control among patients with atrial fibrillation is associated with a 50-percent increased risk of stroke, according to an analysis. The findings suggest that hypertension should be carefully monitored...

Tweaking a specific cell type's ability to absorb potassium in the brain improved walking and prolonged survival in a mouse model of Huntington's disease, reports a study. The discovery could point to new drug targets fo...

"Cosmos" returns to Fox and in the fourth episode, "A Sky Full of Ghosts," Neil deGrasse Tyson explores how our view of the universe is shaped by light, time and gravity. For its heroes of science segment, Sir Patrick St...

Scientists studying the remains of 25 skeletons from medieval London say they've helped fill in some of the gaps surrounding Europe's Black Death plague, one of the worst pandemics in human history. DNA evidence extracte...

How did we evolve from indigent apes with no possessions into hoarding humans with more stuff than we can track? Our urge to accumulate has deep roots (full text available to subscribers)     

Archaeologists have discovered a tomb in Egypt that would have had a pyramid at its entrance and held the sarcophagus of a scribe named Horemheb.

Nanoscale layers in the shells of windowpane oysters could inspire see-through shields and visors that can take multiple bullet hits without shattering     

Having fewer copies of a gene that helps our bodies digest the starch found in carb-rich foods has been linked to obesity     

A smart patch that can be worn on the wrist could detect symptoms of Parkinson's disease or epilepsy and even deliver drugs     

The average citizen may not feel that they have anything to fear from the rise of apps that promise to identify sex offenders in their area but they are part of a worrying trend.

Woolly mammoths with birth defects to west coast mudslides, these are the most interesting stories from Science this week.

(Scripps Research Institute) Scientists from the Florida campus of the Scripps Research Institute have developed what amounts to a best practices guide to the most accurate way of measuring fruit fly food consumption.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT researchers uncover the secrets behind a marine creature's defensive armor -- one that is exceptionally tough, yet optically clear.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) By harnessing an electropolymerization process to produce aligned arrays of polymer nanofibers, researchers have developed a thermal interface material able to conduct heat 20 times bett...

(Arizona State University) Seeking to better understand the composition of the lowermost part of Earth's mantle, a team of Arizona State University researchers has developed new simulations that depict the dynamics of de...

It's no mystery that eating well and exercising benefits both our bodies and minds. For men, it can also help their sexual health stay in tip-top shape. New research suggests that guys who suffer from erectile dysfunctio...