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Atoms of a new super-heavy element -- the as-yet-unnamed element 117 -- have reportedly been created by scientists in Germany, moving it closer to being officially recognized as part of the standard periodic table.

A new documentary about the "Gospel of Jesus's Wife" delves deep into the story behind this tiny scrap of papyrus. Viewers may come away more confident in the fragment's authenticity than some researchers would prefer, h...

Doctors have called for any decision to participate in mammography to be a based on an informed choice and consideration of all factors, rather than just be an automatic process.

Researchers have measured activity of genes associated with breast cancer in women before and while, they took different types of HRT. They found that an HRT used in the WHI trial had a greater activating effect on these...

A new study finds fracking-linked earthquakes can strike much farther from wastewater disposal wells than previously thought.

The first case of a deadly virus that surfaced in Saudi Arabia in 2012 has been reported in the United States, officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today (May 2).

The equator of Beta Pictoris b, a gas giant about 10 times more massive than Jupiter, is moving at about 62,000 mph (100,000 km/h), researchers said -- far faster than any planet in our solar system.

Pot reform has been on the lips of politicians here lately. But the current conversations about cannabis are hardly new. Prominent New York politicians have been challenging pot prohibition for nearly 70 years.

A German lab has become the second collaboration ever to glimpse element 117, strengthening its case for official recognition in the periodic table

There is a much stronger association between alcohol use and advanced liver fibrosis in co-infected patients compared to uninfected, research has demonstrated. Even light ("nonhazardous") drinking -- which typically pose...

Scientists have proposed a number of particles as candidate components of mysterious dark matter, which is so named because it apparently neither emits nor absorbs light. The hunt is on to find and characterize these exo...

Scientists hope space-grown crystals of the protein behind Huntington's disease could help them better understand the deadly neurodegenerative disorder.

Astrophotographer Dora Miller sent in these photos of a spectacular northern lights show over Alaska on April 20. See what it felt like to see the dazzling aurora display.

The CDC has announced that a new orthopoxvirus has been discovered in two men from the nation of Georgia in western Asia. Though both men survived the disease, disease experts aren't taking any chances.

The research groups of Janne Ihalainen (University of Jyväskylä) and Sebastian Westenhoff (University of Gothenburg) have clarified how the atom structure of bacterial red light photosensors changes when sensing light....

Oestriol, a hormone that helps protect the fetus during pregnancy, could be used to treat the most common form of multiple sclerosis

Ramendranarayan Roy, prince of Bhawal estate A couple of drones and this may have never happened. public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, comm...

A new study reports that sleep efficiency, a ratio of time asleep to time spent in bed, is predictive of survival time for women with advanced breast cancer. According to the authors, this is the first study to demonstra...

A protein previously implicated in disease plays such a positive role in learning and memory that it may someday contribute to cures of cognitive impairments, researchers have discovered. The findings regarding the poten...

Farmers in Iowa are seeing changes in rainfall amounts and temperature fluctuations.. Farmer Arlyn Schipper talks about the hazy future of farming.

The Swiss medical board wants mass mammography checks scrapped. Time for a wider rethink of screening, says epidemiologist Anthony Miller

A new 3D computer simulation lets viewers watch the powerful 1964 Alaska earthquake roll through southern Alaska.