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Generations of Europeans who lived after the Black Death were healthier and lived longer than those who lived before the plague's first outbreak, new research shows. The plague may have wiped out the weak and frail, leav...

Graphene, a one-atom-thick form of the carbon material graphite, has been hailed as a wonder material -- strong, light, nearly transparent, and an excellent conductor of electricity and heat. But a number of practical ch...

(Reuters) - The Obama administration on Tuesday released an updated report on how a changing climate has touched every corner of the country, from oyster growers in Washington State to maple syrup producers in Vermont, a...

Playing with touch screen devices may have no benefits in the cognitive development of kids younger than 3 years, even though many parents swear by the devices' 'educational benefits.'

About 20 percent of women now will have pelvic surgery during her lifetime, nearly double the risk of having one of these surgeries in the 1990s, a new study says.

New evidence uncovered at several spots along Alaska's scenic coastline reveals that many tsunamis have flooded the region's southern islands and fjords in the past several thousand years.

Didymo, also known as "rock snot," is a type of freshwater algae that clumps on rocks and invades river bottoms.

Seeing Jesus' face in a piece of toast is a perfectly normal phenomenon, and new research suggests that an area of the brain responsible for processing faces is activated when people think they see a face that isn't ther...

Boom in Arctic Ocean drilling means hazardous leaks under ice, hidden from sight--but not from sound --

Drugs work best when taken as prescribed. Take control with the help of a smart pill and skin patch that report back if you forget to take your meds

The first report of a bacterium whose genome contains man-made DNA building blocks opens the door for tailor-made organisms that could be used to produce new drugs and other products.

The microscopic world described by quantum theory seems a strange, confusing place - but some physicists argue it's just us who are uncertain (full text available to subscribers)

In their quest for new medications, researchers have looked in some unusual places. Now, researchers from the University of Missouri have found that soy sauce contains a potent antiviral compound that may someday be used...

Collective farming in more ways than one THAT orientals and occidentals think in different ways is not mere prejudice. Many psychological studies conducted over the past two decades suggest Westerners have a more individ...

PEOPLE are living longer, which is good. But old age often brings a decline in mental faculties and many researchers are looking for ways to slow or halt such decline. One group doing so is led by Dena Dubal of the Unive...

Is there an afterlife, or is death the end of everything? Will we ever know the answer?

Wild weather is coming in 2014, with floods, storms and droughts expected around the Pacific, but little is being done to protect the people on the front line

Is death the end of everything? Watch a group of physicians and scientists debate the mystery of human consciousness, the meaning of near-death experiences, and the possibility of life after death.

An international collaboration of scientists has created element 117 in a laboratory at the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. Element 117--temporarily referred to as ununseptium--was fir...

The diagnosis of mental disorders is stuck in the pre-scientific age - but a research programme into their neurological bases promises better treatments

Although many people find swearing offensive, male politicians may want to let loose a few swear words next time they're giving a speech.

A "holographic" theory, which was conjectured to describe accurately the dynamical phenomena occurring in a black hole, has been tested numerically by a research group composed of four researchers: Masanori Hanada, Ph.D....