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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...

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

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

Scientists have been on the hunt for dark matter for decades. A new hypothesis now suggests that the strange invisible stuff could be made of microscopic, or quantum, black hole atoms.

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.

Originally Published: May 1 2014 - 4:00pm, Inside Science News Service By: Charles Q. Choi, ISNS Contributor (ISNS) -- Spacetime is a somewhat slippery concept -- Einstein described the universe in four dimensions, combi...

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

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.

A satellite captures images of secretive, isolated North Korea, including possible wildfires burning in the country's mountains. Other fires may be intentionally set.

An extremely rare 158-year-old postage stamp -- one that has been described as the Holy Grail for stamp collectors -- will be auctioned off this summer in New York City. The famous postal artifact could fetch as much as ...

Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting may be part of the oldest 3D artwork, say two visual scientists, who looked at the original version and one painted possibly alongside it, called the Prado version.

Eating healthy can be difficult with so many myths about nutrition around. Here is the truth behind some common myths about health eating.

Two tiny creatures brave teeth as large as themselves to take a sip from a spectacled caiman's tear ducts

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