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In a feat that may provide a promising array of applications, from energy efficiency to telecommunications to enhanced imaging, researchers at UC Santa Barbara have created a compound semiconductor of nearly perfect qual...

Physicists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have helped confirm the existence of exotic hadrons -- a type of matter that cannot be classified within the traditional quark model.

It's only when the black box recorders are recovered that investigators will be able to find out what happened to the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 and the 239 passengers and crew.

Scientists have conducted new studies at the La Brea Tar Pits, the world's richest and most important Ice Age fossil locality, which have provided a link between climate warming and the evolution of Ice Age predators, an...

Update 1:30 p.m. EDT: NASA announced plans for a spacewalk to replace the failed MDM. According to NASA, "Such a spacewalk is one of the so-called "Big 12" spacewalks that station crews train to execute for the loss of a...

Greenland's ice sheet is like a time capsule that chronicles the recent history of Earth's atmosphere, including the role humans have played in changing it. Scientists who analyzed core samples from the ice found they co...

Treatment options for the 170 million people worldwide with chronic Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) are evolving rapidly, although the available regimens often come with significant side effects. Two multi-center clinical trials...

In 2013, the addition of renewable capacity slowed slightly compared to the previous year as a result of shrinking governmental incentives and investment, according to a new report from The Pew Chartiable Trusts. While t...

An expedition to the Kermadec Trench, one of Earth's coldest, deepest ocean trenches, is scheduled to start today (April 12).

A UK study investigating the link between low vitamin D status and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in British children has identified a genetic variant associated with the disease's severity.

Exciting new data shows that the gut microbiota has a potential role in the development of alcoholic liver disease. Though an early stage animal model, a French study highlights the possibility of preventing ALD with fec...

Results from three Phase III clinical trials evaluating the investigational once-daily fixed-dose combination of the nucleotide analogue polymerase inhibitor sofosbuvir 400mg and the NS5A inhibitor ledipasvir 90mg, with ...

A new compound, SBEL1, has the ability to inhibit hepatitis C virus activity in cells at several points in the virus' lifecycle. SBEL1 is a compound isolated from Chinese herbal medicines that was found to inhibit HCV ac...

Recruiters, especially those in the tech sector, are increasingly turning to social media as a way to find qualified candidates. Here are the skills and jobs that hiring managers are searching for.

Photos of the oldest living things, a ghostly beauty in Death Valley and a UFO on Mars -- just a few of the most amazing images in Science.

On Tuesday (April 15), Space.com will premiere a new documentary "LIGO, A Passion for Understanding" by filmmaker Kai Staats, which follows scientists using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories (LIGO...

Go ahead and contemplate your own mortality. How does it feel? Would you be surprised to learn that it can potentially improve your mental health to think about your death more often?

Few of us do it but we should all be in the habit of changing our passwords regularly.

One in 5,000 babies in the United States are born with gastroschisis, but what is it?

No matter how strong the scientific argument and consensus among scientists there will always be people who reject the evidence. It happens on so many scientific topics, from climate change and vaccination to nuclear pow...

A certain monkey species is unusually monogamous, a new study finds.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 shook Nicaragua Friday (April 11), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).