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Even before birth, concerned parents often fret over the possibility that their children may have underlying medical issues. Chief among these worries are rare genetic conditions that can drastically shape the course and...

There are three distinct types of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that match up with children's personalities, some researchers suggest.

A staple food for millennia, wheat is now accused of causing everything from gut ailments to mental disorders. Linda Geddes separates the facts from the chaff (full text available to subscribers)

The U.S. military has chosen two universities to lead a program to develop brain implants to restore memory to veterans who have suffered brain injuries, officials said at a news conference yesterday (July 8).

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering have created a lithium ion battery that outperforms the current industry standard by three times. The key material: sand. Yes, sand.

Satellites could be a promising tool for tracking Arctic wildlife on the ground, a new study suggests.

Russia successfully launched Wednesday its first new space rocket design in more than two decades. The Angara 1.2PP rocket was launched from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome in the subarctic north. The Angara 1.2PP is th...

Nikola Tesla, genius inventor, and Thomas Edison, expert businessman.

A Northern anchovy school was the largest group of anchovies ever seen offshore of La Jolla in the last 30 years.

Focusing on the center -- and it's wide -- how polarized is the United States?

This 4th of July let's enjoy the spectacular displays inside us, too.

Nearly 90,000 U.S. adults visit the emergency room for side effects from prescription psychiatric medications yearly, more than 10,000 of which are related to the sleep drug Ambien.

Two satellite images show how the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo has grown over two decades, with spreading suburbs and new ring roads.

A massive school of anchovies swarmed offshore of La Jolla, San Diego, on July 8, 2014. Scientists with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography swam with the silvery fish and collected samples for study.

Nikola Tesla, who gave science some of its greatest technologies, has been somewhat overlooked for his achievements. Here are a few other scientists who were robbed of their dues in the annals of science.

When a superconductor is exposed to a magnetic field, a current on its surface appears which creates a counter field that cancels the magnetic field inside the superconductor. This phenomenon, known as "Meissner-Ochsenfe...

Could seeing the world through the eyes of the scientist who behaves unethically be a valuable tool for those trying to behave ethically? Last semester, I asked my “Ethics in Science”... --

This week on the Physics Central Podcast, I talk with physicist Dan Stamper-Kurn about making the smallest measurement of a force ever recorded.  He and his group (including lead author Sydney Schreppler) applied a for...

A young child who died 1,500 years ago is the earliest probable case of Down syndrome in the archaeological record, say scientists who examined the child's skeleton, particularly the skull.

Nikola Tesla may be known today as one of history's greatest inventors, but the intrepid scientist's eccentricities have become as legendary as his trailblazing discoveries in the field of electricity.

Gorillas can turn on and off their musky, pungent smell depending on the social situation -- in essence, communicating by scent.

Researchers from the University of Colorado in Boulder have said a nearly 52-million-year-old fossil is that of the tiniest hedgehog to have ever lived on Earth. According to the researchers, the prehistoric hedgehog, na...