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Goats might be smarter than one would think, as they can quickly learn and remember how to perform certain tasks, a new study suggests.

Droplets of filamentous material enclosed in a lipid membrane: these are the models of a "simplified" cell used by the SISSA physicists Luca Giomi and Antonio DeSimone, who simulated the spontaneous emergence of cell mot...

In a highly emotional situation like a school shooting, it can be difficult to separate fact from speculation. What does science have to say about school shootings and violence?

A young man in Brazil who suffered from throbbing headaches and vision problems for 10 years turned out to have stone-like build-ups of calcium in his brain.

A new species is the oldest and smallest of an ancient group of mammal ancestors, the caseids. The discovery helps fill in the blanks of evolution from a carnivorous to herbivorous lifestyle.

Rates of certain serious, diabetes-related health problems have decreased substantially in the last two decades, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Plastic surgeons reattached the ear of a woman after it was torn off during a pit bull attack, suturing together a tiny artery to bring blood flow to the ear and using leeches to drain the spent blood.

Inexpensive computers, cell phones and other systems that substitute flexible plastic for silicon chips may be one step closer to reality, thanks to research published on April 16 in the journal Nature Communications.

The jet stream's plunging pattern is a long-standing natural phenomenon. However, new findings also suggest that global warming may boost the frequency or intensity of the curves, which would mean more extreme winter wea...

A group of researchers discovered a dead nose-horned viper with a centipede's head sticking out of its ruptured abdomen. After a post-mortem, the scientists think it's possible that the centipede quite literally eviscera...

At sports venues designed to maximize crowd atmosphere, beware of hearing loss. Originally published: Apr 14 2014 - 2:45pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Brian Owens, ISNS Contributor(ISNS) -- The roar of the crowd is a...

The last thing the first life needed was a wet environment - so did it even start here on Earth? (full text available to subscribers)

A new drug promises to stop the measles virus in its tracks after people have been infected. Will it help us eradicate measles?

It does not always take a huge accelerator to do particle physics: First results from a low energy, table top alterative takes validity of Newtonian gravity down by five orders of magnitude and narrows the potential prop...

In Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare, evolutionary psychology pioneer Gordon H. Orians traces the roots of today's human quirks in the minds of our ancestors

Grunting, clawing, and sensing a hair-covered body with cloven feet and elongated nails are symptoms of people who strongly believe they are werewolves. A researcher dug through the annals of psychiatry to find how commo...

Despite frozen shutters and cracking film, Victor Rogus captured the 2000 lunar eclipse.

Filmmaker Kai Staats joins leading researchers from the LIGO team to share the motivations behind "LIGO: A Passion for Understanding."

Sharks are usually thought of as primitive creatures, sometimes called "living fossils." But a new study of a 325-million-year-old shark fossil -- the most complete of its kind -- suggests modern sharks have evolved sign...

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Information about who suspects call and when is helping police work out who is linked to which crimes and even their place in the criminal hierarchy

A crucible of bright stars illuminates a nebula in glowing red hydrogen that would normally be too faint for the human eye to see