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Researchers genetically modified probiotic bacteria to produce a hunger-suppressing hormone in the gut.

A Catalan, German and Austrian group of physicists has developed a new technology to transfer magnetic fields to arbitrary long distances, which is comparable to transmitting and routing light in optical fibers. Oriol Ro...

Your cat may think she's your boss, but she would actually be your boss if it weren't for a feat of engineering called the human hand, complete with opposable thumbs. It's not easy to build a robot that can compete with ...

(Phys.org) --For the past few decades, physicists have been studying the phenomenon of "twisted light," which is light that is twisted like a corkscrew along its axis of travel. Due to the twisting, the light waves at th...

A new report by the Risky Business Project quantifies the impacts of climate change on the U.S. economy.

Astronomers have discovered the coldest white dwarf around 900 light-years away from Earth. The white dwarf star, about 11 billion years old, and is believed to be composed mostly of crystallized carbon, making it a diam...

High-speed video revealed that disco clams are not bioluminescent, but their lips are covered with tiny silica spheres that reflect natural light.

A new study found an elevated risk of suicide in patients with ADHD, and an elevated risk of suicide in their parents and siblings.

Massive 30-ton MicroBooNE particle detector moved into place, will see neutrinos this year -- CERN announces LHC restart schedule -- CERN experiments report new Higgs boson measurements -- NEMO closes in on neutrino mass...

Traces of 50,000-year-old poop found at a Neanderthal campground in Spain suggest that modern humans' prehistoric cousins may have had a healthy dose of plants in their diet, researchers say.

Drilus beetle larvae commandeer the shells of Albinaria snails by breaking and entering.

Chances are you've tried to hide a runny nose and cough when you're sick at the office or around family members, and a new study finds animals do something similar.

Some over-the-counter acne treatment can trigger serious, life-threatening allergic reactions in rare cases, the Food and Drug Administration warned today.

By combining advanced mathematics with high-performance computing, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Indiana University (IU) have developed a tool that allowed them to calculate ...

A proven system for verifying that apparent nuclear weapons slated to be dismantled contained true warheads could provide a key step toward the further reduction of nuclear arms. The system would achieve this verificatio...

Stanley Miller, the chemist whose landmark experiment published in 1953 showed how some of the molecules of life could have formed on a young Earth, left behind boxes of experimental samples that he never analyzed. The f...

Wrinkles, creases and folds are everywhere in nature, from the surface of human skin to the buckled crust of Earth. They can also be useful structures for engineers. Wrinkles in thin films, for example, can help make dur...

All mammals that weigh more than about six-and-a-half pounds take about the same time to urinate, thanks to the structure of the urethra. Karen Hopkin reports.     --

By combining advanced mathematics with high-performance computing, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Indiana University have developed a tool that allowed them to calculate a fundamenta...

Robots that can navigate in unknown spaces have been given manners to help them coordinate their in-flight movements

Image: Mark Miodownik Materials scientist Mark Miodownik's book Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World was recently published in the United States. It's a great look at the scien...

Kids who eat according to the Mediterranean diet are less likely to be overweight or obese than kids who don't, a new study finds.