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If you're looking for up-to-date medical information, it's best to avoid Wikipedia, researchers warn. A new study says health entries on the Web's most popular crowd-sourced encyclopedia are riddled with errors. Accordin...

The skeleton found in a Leicester car park in 2012 shows signs of adolescent onset idiopathic scoliosis – a condition that causes the spine to curve relatively late in development

“That word says ‘Soyuz!’ ” I remember looking at a similar picture to this a month or two ago, of Expedition 38 or 39 sitting in front of their spacecraft. I couldn’t believe it. I had been looking at shots lik...

Some of the top polluters in the U.S. are changing to cleaner energy -- a trend that should accelerate with new U.S. standards.

The Humane Society of the United States has cleared a construction site in Apopka, Florida where a population of the the burrowing tortoises were found. They would have been buried alive if the Humane Society did not int...

A drug that has almost wiped out south Asia's once-numerous vultures also seems to kill eagles, and it is now available in Europe and Africa

A satellite view of Hurricane Amanda from May 25, 2014, shows the storm's profile. NASA's CloudSat satellite flew over the storm's east side and captured an image of the storm's clouds and precipitation.

Technology giant Samsung says it wants to bring the world closer to the era of using wearable technology for personalized medicine.

A sensor that keeps tabs on inmates' breathing rate and heartbeat could save lives in the slammer

How do you design a hit video game? Psychologists are diagnosing what gets us addicted - a recipe for obsession that could hurt or heal us (full text available to subscribers)

The finding raises the bar in the race to find discrepancies between matter and antimatter --

Hydro­medusa David Shale David Shale has filmed and photographed ocean life for nearly four decades. But capturing images of such unusual creatures involves equally unusual challenges. "Most of [the animals] have mucus ...

If an independent Scotland decides become a serious player on the world's tech start-up scene, it would do well to look to Israel's success for inspiration

The University of Arizona recently acquired a new supercomputer that will enable researchers to make ultra-fast calculations. The machine is nicknamed "El Gato" (short for the Extremely LarGe Advanced TechnOlogy system).

NASA's Cloudsat mission flew over the storm on May 25th, 2014. It saw heavy to moderate precipitation below the freezing level.

Species are going extinct at least 1,000 times faster than they would be if humans didn't exist, new research finds. However, scientists say that technology and citizen-science tools can turn this biodiversity crisis aro...

Root canals could soon be a thing of the past. In experiments on rats and mice, researchers found that laser light stimulates the growth of dentin, the substance that makes up much of a tooth's structure.

New technology allows researchers to track biodiversity and endangered species like never before. New maps show hotspots of biodiversity around the globe, showing areas that would benefit from targeted conservation.

One of the world's great coral reef regions protected fish from the ravages of climate change for the past 3 million years.

Bad news, we are extinguishing species at an astonishing rate without knowing how many we can lose before ecosystems collapse

The risk of developing the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma, may be more closely related to sun exposure in early life than in adulthood, researchers say.

There is up to 24 billion barrels of recoverable oil and gas left under the North Sea that could kick-start Scotland's future as an independent nation