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A single bacterial strain may help researchers better understand the processes of global carbon cycling.

Ancient spherical fossils dating back to around 500 million years ago appear to be the embryos of a yet-unknown animal. The fossils come from the Cambrian, a time when the diversity of life exploded.

Carrying a variant of the APOE gene increases Alzheimer's risk – but comparing men's and women's genetic risk suggests it's not that simple

Apparently, once you've eaten human flesh, you develop a real taste for it. Two brothers in Pakistan were arrested in 2011 for digging up about 150 graves and stealing away with the bodies, which they later consumed.

Tiny tubes deliver functioning genes to cells with broken copies.

People who smoke marijuana a few times a week, but are not addicted to the drug, may still have changes in their brains.

Jack White, former lead singer of The White Stripes band, recently released a music video of "High Ball Stepper" - a song off his new solo album Lazaretto - that takes advantage of the alien-like properties of non-Newton...

Tuesday's total lunar eclipse had stargazers staying up late to watch the blood moon. While parts of the U.S. East Coast, including New York, were unable to view the eclipse, plenty of amateur astronomers snapped photos ...

An analysis that included active military personnel finds that the rate of the thyroid disorder Graves disease is more common among blacks and Asian/Pacific Islanders compared with whites. The authors write that the diff...

The perfect steak needs to be exposed to enough heat to denature its proteins without drying it out. Complex chemical reactions create the perfect browning on the outside.

Dreamscience Propulsion Dreamscience Propulsion's snowboard thrusters are difficult to describe. It's like: if you stuffed airplane engines in American Gladiator batons? It's like: if you took a boom mic and used it to s...

From accelerators unexpectedly beneath your feet to a ferret that once cleaned accelerator components, symmetry shares some lesser-known facts about particle accelerators. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN laboratory has...

Scientists have solved a decades-old medical mystery -- and in the process have found a potentially less toxic way to fight invasive fungal infections, which kill about 1.5 million people a year. The researchers say they...

Cases of diabetes and pre-diabetes in the United States have nearly doubled since 1988, suggests new research, with obesity apparently to blame for the surge. The researchers also found that the burden of the disease has...

In a study of nearly 1,000 mother-child pairs, researchers found that prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a frequently prescribed treatment for depression, anxiety and other disorders, w...

People who have suffered injuries to the brain or spinal cord could one day be helped with treatments based on epigenetics or gene therapy, new research shows.

People with certain personality traits may at increased risk for drug use problems, and studying personality may help researchers better understand and treat these problems, according to a new review.

A hymn to citizen science, Walden Warming by Richard Primack seeks the reality of climate change in the effects that ordinary people have recorded

The average American flushes 24 gallons of water down the toilet daily, while--don't get me wrong, toilets; we appreciate all of your hard work--maybe some of the energy used in a flush could be put to an additional use....

Real-time audio recordings of children being spanked showed parents responded impulsively or emotionally, rather than being intentional with their discipline, says a psychologist and parenting expert. Researchers discove...

A mechanism has been discovered that explains why people with the hepatitis C virus get liver disease and why the virus is able to persist in the body for so long. The hard-to-kill pathogen, which infects an estimated 20...

Researchers have grown an esophagus, which brings food and water to the stomach, in a lab, and found the organ functioned as needed when implanted into rats. This research could someday help people with esophageal cancer...