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Nearly two months after the U.S. federal government issued new guidelines urging doctors to adopt Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, commonly referred to as PrEP -- a highly effective method involving a single pill that can reduc...

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to estimate uncertainties in computer calculations that are widely used to speed the search for new m...

A mosaic discovered in an ancient synagogue in Galilee depicts a bloody battle scene instead of a traditional Biblical scene.

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rumbled off Japan's northern coast early Saturday morning. The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) issued a Tsunami Advisory to the Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, meaning they expect th...

A student in Taiwan who left disposable contact lenses in her eyes for six months straight developed a rare and serious eye infection that ultimately took her vision, according to news reports.

Ron Allum. Brook Rushton/National Geographic In late March 2012, an oblong lime-green submersible broke the surface of the Western Pacific near Guam. On the deck of a nearby ship, the Mermaid Sapphire, an 80-person suppo...

In late March 2012, an oblong lime-green submersible broke the surface of the Western Pacific near Guam. On the deck of a nearby ship, the Mermaid Sapphire, an 80-person support team and a film crew cheered wildly. The t...

There is enough evidence to support the use of probiotics to treat four conditions, doctors say.

New Yorkers may be treated to a stunning sunset tonight (July 11), with the return of a phenomenon known as "Manhattanhenge," which occurs when the setting sun aligns with Manhattan's grid of streets.

Three spiders that have reputations as being "venomous," or having bites that can kill human tissue, may actually not be so harmful, recent studies show.

Artist's impression of a major impact event.Fredrik via Wikimedia commonsRights information: ://bit.ly/1jbtszL Asteroid and comet impacts could have created refuges for early life on Earth, protecting the first microorga...

Compulsive sexual behavior may have the same patterns of brain activity as those associated with drug addiction, a new study finds.

Yellowstone National Park closed a popular road Thursday (July 10) after geothermal heat cooked the asphalt.

Constructing The Run Tilting Point To advertise the new mobile game Leo's Fortune, master Rube Goldberg machine crafter Brett Doar, who we covered in our March issue, has devised a new contraption. The game centers aroun...

Although cigarette smoking isn't nearly as popular with teens in the United States as it was a decade ago, that doesn't mean teens don't smoke. A new study finds that a more exotic form of tobacco use, hookah smoking, is...

Malnutrition during pregnancy can lead to genetic changes that affect the next generation of mice, and health impacts that linger for two

Microbes that don't usually follow a day and night cycle have been shown to tune their biology to photosynthetic species in the open ocean

X-ray phase-contrast imaging is a method that uses the refraction of X-rays through a specimen instead of attenuation resulting from absorption. The images produced with this method are often of much higher quality than ...

An excavation of Reynard's Kitchen Cave in the United Kingdom unearthed Iron Age and Roman coins.

A baby in Mississippi reported free of HIV has relapsed – showing that even traces of the virus can rebound

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Mongolia will recover enough stunning fossils to start its first dinosaur museum after a prolific smuggler was brought to justice by an undercover sting