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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 ...

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.

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...

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

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...

A fire ravaging the scenic city of Valparaiso, Chile, is visible from satellite on April 13, 2014. So far, 15 people have died in the fire, and thousands of homes have been destroyed.

Dust left over from an exploding star could mimic the effect that primordial gravitational waves would have had on ancient cosmic light

A Google-owned company has chosen to forgo military funding for the next round of a robotics competition hosted by DARPA, the branch of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for developing new technologies for the m...

A Bluefin-21 AUV at the Surface of the Water After a Mission Bluefin Robotics The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has moved underwater, but it's still not easy. A robotic submarine deployed yesterday returned t...

RZSS officials announced today (April 15) that Britain's only female giant panda, Tian Tian, was artificially inseminated at the Edinburgh Zoo after failing to get it on the natural way with her partner, Yang Guang.

his month, you can fly along the Gulf of Mexico seafloor and explore an ecosystem fueled by chemicals instead of sunlight, all from the comfort of home.

Pollution from China's coal-burning power plants has increased the strength of storms in the Pacific Northwest by 10 percent over the last three decades --

The moon took on an eerie blood-red hue early Tuesday during the first total lunar eclipse of 2014, a celestial sight that wowed potentially millions of stargazers across North and South America. See photos of the amazin...