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The sudden loss of a loved one can trigger a variety of psychiatric disorders in people with no history of mental illness. While previous studies have suggested there is a link between sudden bereavement and an onset of ...

Researchers say a little deception caused cyclists in their 4K time trial to up their performance even after they realized they had been tricked. The findings support the idea that the brain plays a powerful role in how ...

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...

“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...

Mysterious 16th-century art from Cambodia's legendary temple lives again in enhanced digital images that reveal more than the human eye can see

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.

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

In the 1960s and 1970s, heroin users were primarily inner-city young men from minority groups. Today, the people most likely to get hooked on heroin are white men and women in their late 20s living outside large urban ar...

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 --

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

Global malnutrition could fall 84 percent by the year 2050 as incomes in developing countries grow -- but only if agricultural productivity continues to improve and climate change does not severely damage agriculture, re...

The areas of the cerebral cortex that are affected in mice with absence epilepsy have been pinpointed by research that also shows that transplanting embryonic neural cells into these areas can alleviate symptoms of the d...

New research may help physicians better understand the chronological development of a brain aneurysm. Simplified, a cerebral aneurysm is a blood-filled bulge formed in response to a weakness in the wall at branching brai...

A promising new approach to a live attenuated HIV-1 vaccine is being pursued by scientists, using a genetically modified form of the HIV virus. The new method involves manipulating the virus' codons -- a sequence of thre...

Crime fighters could have a new tool at their disposal. Researchers have developed a cutting-edge technique to identify human hair. Their test is quicker than DNA analysis techniques currently used by law enforcement. Ea...

The numbers of measles cases in the United States so far this year marks a 20-year high, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced today.

War wounds that heal successfully frequently contain different microbial species from those that heal poorly, according to a paper. These and other findings have important implications for improving wound healing, says t...

'Gene regulation,' the process that shuts off certain parts of a cell's DNA code or blueprint in healthy breast tissue cells, may also play a critical role in the development of breast cancer, scientists have found. Thei...