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A special hydrogel substance has been developed that can be equipped to detect bacteria, carry cargo and deliver medicine. A researcher used a worm's contracting and expanding motion to provide a way for gels to swim in ...

The oldest known evidence of Lyme disease may lie in ticks that were entombed in amber at least 15 million years ago, scientists announced.

Stem cells switch off and on, sometimes dividing to produce progeny cells and sometimes resting. But scientists don't fully understand what causes the cells to toggle between active and quiet states. New research focused...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he would unveil the Dragon V2 spacecraft on May 29, and SpaceX will host a Dragon V2 Unveil live stream on Thursday starting at 10 p.m. EDT (7 p.m. PDT). While the Dragon was designed for unmann...

Assembling a future robot could be as simple as heating it up. Two new studies demonstrate how 3D-printed robots could fold into shape and assemble themselves after being exposed to heat.

Music shapes the brain in many ways -- it can alter brain structures in musicians, and enhance cognitive skills in children and adults alike, research shows. Still, scientists are continuing to learn much about the way t...

Frequent viewers of pornography tend to have smaller brain volumes in certain regions associated with reward and motivation, a new study found.

It's important to ground your house. But you? Not so much. Image by Ali_K I'm amazed at the lengths that some people will go to in order to make a dishonest buck. I mean, wouldn't it be easier just to start a legitimate ...

In the grasslands and floodplains of southern Africa, conservationists found a 300-mile (500 kilometers) zebra migration -- the longest known trek of any land mammal on the continent.

Results from a pilot study demonstrating the utility of a new cancer panel to detect previously undetected viral and cancer mutations have been released by researchers. The panel identified human papilloma virus (HPV) se...

Himalaya from the International Space Station NASA Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmanned aircraft. Bottle Servi...

Coaxing iPS cells in the laboratory to become more-specialized progeny cells (a cellular process called differentiation) before transplantation into mice allows them to be tolerated by the body's immune system, research ...

Measles have reached a 20-year high in the United States and the cause lies squarely with those who deliberately refuse to be vaccinated. Eighty-five percent of the unvaccinated U.S. residents who contracted measles cite...

Women with metastatic breast cancer to the bone may be able to receive bisphosphonates, the bone-targeting class of drugs like zoledronic acid, less often after the first year of monthly administration. With that practic...

Among young breast cancer patients, one of the most distressing side effects of chemotherapy is early menopause. But a major study finds the risk of early menopause can be significantly reduced by adding the drug goserel...

Advances in exponential technology happen fast -- too fast for Singularity Hub to cover them all. This weekly bulletin points to significant developments to keep readers in the know. Here's a clever new use for 3D printi...

Measuring CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants and other sources could be entering the space age.

A group of amateur astronomers whose mission was to take control of a decades-old NASA spacecraft say their efforts to communicate with the defunct probe succeeded, scientists announced Thursday.

For the first time, the molecular structure of a protein complex that plays an important role in regulating the circadian rhythm has been identified by a team of researchers. "Our circadian clock controls many important ...

Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer often benefit from chemotherapy before surgery to remove the tumor, but a test of one regimen by researchers was halted when too many people experienced serious side effects s...

The gap between stem cell research and regenerative medicine just became a lot narrower, thanks to a new technique that coaxes stem cells to take the first step to specialization for the first time in a laboratory. Resea...

Three genetic changes can predict whether a patient will benefit from chemotherapy before surgery to remove bladder cancer, according to new findings. These results suggest that doctors may one day sequence patients' tum...