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Nearly 90 years after Werner Heisenberg pioneered his uncertainty principle, a group of researchers from three countries has provided substantial new insight into this fundamental tenet of quantum physics with the first ...

Phytoplankton and bacterial byproducts dye the ocean green and yellow in a new satellite image of the Namibian coast. The yellow swirls seen in the water can be deadly to fish.

After Oklahoma death-row inmate Clayton Lockett received a lethal injection, he lived for 43 minutes, convulsing and writhing on the gurney before finally dying of a heart attack, according to news reports.

When forecasting the much-feared "Big One" -- the next devastatingly large earthquake -- scientists should look to the oldest parts of a dangerous fault, researchers said here today (April 30) at the annual meeting of th...

Predator control from the U.S. Wildlife Services itself must be controlled.

Ocean acidification -- a phenomenon in which the world's oceans become more acidic as they absorb higher levels of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -- is causing the shells of tiny marine snails to dissolve, according ...

A convergent series is a mathematical series in which the sequence of partial sums converges to 1. A divergent series is just the opposite -- the sums do not meet a finite limit.

Obese people who don't have certain signs of heart disease now may still be at higher risk for future disease than normal-weight people, according to a new study.

Pregnancy affects how drugs are metabolized, which makes it difficult for physicians to prescribe appropriate dosing. Medical researchers have revealed new details about one particular enzyme that's responsible for the m...

Kosher food is not a style of cooking or a cultural menu (like Chinese or Italian food). Instead, "kosher" refers to foods that adhere to the dietary laws of Judaism, also called kashrut, as described in the Torah.

This documentary trailer calls out the little known US Wildlife Services' predator control unit for alleged inhumane methods of carnivore extermination. Some livestock ranchers believe that new technologies and non-letha...

MS researchers have found brain reserve and cognitive reserve confer long-term protective effect against cognitive decline. In this study, memory, cognitive efficiency, vocabulary (a measure of intellectual enrichment/co...

There are signs that all living things sit on the knife-edge of criticality - something that could help them adapt to complex and unpredictable events (full text available to subscribers)

People with injuries that destroyed part of a muscle could be helped with an experimental treatment that uses a pig bladder as a muscle scaffold, researchers say.

Damaged leg muscles grew stronger and showed signs of regeneration in three out of five men whose old injuries were surgically implanted with extracellular matrix derived from pig bladder, according to a new study. Early...

From a turn-of-the-century eclipse to a 100-year-old glimpse of the Seminole people of Florida, a new digital collection reveals the history of a nation

Neurosurgeons have, for the first time, combined real-time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology with novel non-invasive cellular mapping techniques to develop a new biopsy approach that increases the accuracy of d...

Engineers have successfully grown -- for the first time -- fully functional human cartilage in vitro from human stem cells derived from bone marrow tissue. Their study demonstrates new ways to better mimic the enormous c...

A pitcher's elbow injury could be linked to movement in the hips, research finds. When the pitcher performs a pitch, much of the stress is focused on a single ligament: the ulnar collateral ligament of the elbow joint. A...

There's more to the South Pole than just some ice and a pole. A lot more. In fact the bottom of the world is a veritable hot bed of international scientific experiments. Like the Askaryan Radio Array, subject of this wee...

New findings could help explain the motion of the giant tectonic plates that surf over Earth's mantle, the movements of which explain how the continents have drifted over time as well as disasters such as earthquakes and...

The recent sanctions against Russia have already put a strain on relations between the country and the United States but have yet to affect the International Space Station or ongoing agreements between NASA and Roscosmos...