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There are massive and extremely bright stars in the universe that were long suspected by astronomers to die spectacular, explosive deaths, and a new study has put forth evidence for the first time that these cosmic behem...

A man whose finger bones looked mysteriously "eaten away" on an X-ray was actually a textbook case for doctors who have seen what high levels of a hormone called parathyroid hormone can do to the body.

The way in which the sex of an organism is determined may require lifelong maintenance, finds new research. Sex-specific transcription factors perform lifelong work to maintain sexual determination and protect against re...

A small molecule that prevents bacteria from forming into biofilms, a frequent cause of infections, has been discovered by researchers. The anti-biofilm peptide works on a range of bacteria including many that cannot be ...

The malaria drug hydroxychloroquine blocked autophagy in a host of aggressive cancers -- glioblastoma, melanoma, lymphoma and myeloma, renal and colon cancers -- and in some cases helped stabilize disease. These results ...

Lifestyle changes in the form of healthy eating and regular exercise can decrease biomarkers related to breast cancer recurrence and mortality, a pair of interventional studies involving breast cancer survivors has found...

Approximately one third of all brain aneurysms rupture during a patient's lifetime, resulting in a brain haemorrhage. A recent study demonstrates that, unlike what was previously assumed, the size of the aneurysm does no...

Children with profound deafness who receive a cochlear implant had as much as five times the risk of having delays in areas of working memory, controlled attention, planning and conceptual learning as children with norma...

Kidney transplant patients had a reduced risk of treatment failure or premature death compared with patients on long and frequent home hemodialysis. Kidney transplant patients had a higher risk of being hospitalized with...

Last month WHO issued a report that warned of an increase of antimicrobial-resistance and the renewed threat of bacterial infections world-wide and called for a concerted effort to develop new and better antimicrobial dr...

Chemical signals that certain breast cancers use to recruit two types of normal cells needed for the cancers' spread have been discovered in mice, researchers report. "If a drug can be found that safely blocks the same s...

Poorer people of all ages are less likely than wealthier ones to follow recommended strategies for weight loss, finds a recent study. "We found that compared to persons of higher household incomes, both youths and adults...

A gene commonly linked to obesity --- FTO --- contributes to weight gain, researchers have demonstrated. The study shows that variations in FTO indirectly affect the function of the primary cilium, a little-understood ha...

A group of sexual medicine experts say they've arrived at a new definition that includes men who have had premature ejaculation all their lives, and those who've acquired the condition as they've aged.

Rockets in the John P. Stapp Air and Space Park at the New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, New Mexico AllenS, via Wikimedia Commons Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the milit...

Warmer water changes weather patterns, bringing floods and droughts across the globe.

HAARP, the ionospheric research program and longtime target for conspiracy theorists, is set to shut down this year, despite complaints from some scientists, who say the facility could still be useful.

Hawaii's sheltered Duke Kahanamoku Beach in Waikiki is the No. 1 beach in the United States in 2014, thanks to a safe, protected location with lots of amenities and Oahu's new no-smoking policy.

The best beaches of 2014, as ranked by Florida International University's "Dr. Beach." Hawaii and Florida rank high on the list, with a protected Oahu beach taking the top spot.

The United States particle physics community should focus on dark matter and energy experiments, as well as pursuing new physics related to neutrinos and the Higgs Boson, a new report suggests.

It's time for deniers of human-caused global warming to stop using an old magazine story as ammunition against the consensus of today's climate scientists. McCarty Glacier, Alaska. Left: July 30, 1909. Right: August 11, ...

Infant health has steadily improved among the United States' most disadvantaged groups, despite worsening economic conditions for those at the bottom. Researchers cite targeted programs and policies as the driving forces...