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Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation announced support for a suite of upcoming experiments to search for dark matter that will be many times more sensitive than...

Legged Support System Robot In Hawaii U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Matthew Callahan Last week in Hawaii, a squad of U.S. Marines brought a robot deep into the jungle. The Legged Support System (LS3) robot walks on fou...

From a cognitive perspective, aging is typically associated with decline. But the news isn't all bad when it comes to cognitive aging, according to new articles recently published. Researchers show how several factors --...

The long-lasting symptoms that many patients contend with following mild traumatic brain injury, also known as concussion, may be posttraumatic disorder and not postconcussion syndrome. Concussion accounts for more than ...

According to the National Institutes of Health, there is no convincing scientific evidence that magnets can relieve pain.

The International Space Station (ISS) received close to 3,300 pounds of supplies when the Cygnus spacecraft berthed with the space station on Wednesday. Orbital Sciences' Cygnus launched atop Orbital Sciences' Antares ro...

Five siblings in the family, who live in a remote corner of Turkey, walk exclusively on their hands and feet. Since they were discovered in 2005, scientists have debated the nature of their disability, with speculation t...

Research derived from early national experience of liver transplantation has shown that deceased donor liver transplants offered recipients better survival rates than living donor liver transplants, making them the prefe...

Kimberly Koss is fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer. She hopes that long after she dies, her cancer cells will continue to live on in an immortal cell line that would be similar to the cell line described in th...

Whale sharks -- the world's largest fish -- are appearing more frequently near the Azores islands, due to climate change, a new study finds.

Dr. Nigel Smith appointed to consecutive term as SNOLAB Director -- Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle -- 50 years from the discovery of 'CP-violation' -- Stalking the shadow univers...

The Indus River dolphin range has declined dramatically as a result of dams that have fragmented their native habitat, new research finds.

When looking for a meal, prehistoric people in Africa munched on the tuberous roots of weeds such as the purple nutsedge, according to a new study of hardened plaque on samples of ancient teeth.

An international team of researchers has found new evidence that our prehistoric ancestors had a detailed understanding of plants long before the development of agriculture. By extracting chemical compounds and microfoss...

Patients taking prescription potassium supplements together with loop diuretics for heart failure have better survival rates than patients taking diuretics without the potassium. Moreover, the degree of benefit increases...

Putting a new gene into pig heart cells allows the cells to keep the heart's rhythm in check, a technique that might one day serve as an alternative to electronic pacemakers.

Ocean Plastic Debris All of these pieces of plastic were removed from the stomach of a single north fulmar, a seabird, during a necropsy at the National Wildlife Health Lab. Carol Meteyer, USGS Dutch engineering student ...

Adult pigs have been cured of heart block by turning their own cells into a pacemaker using a gene involved in embryonic heat development

Pioneers had plenty to worry about on their journeys west, but the earliest Mormons survived their treks across the Great Plains in high numbers, new research finds. The mortality rate of Mormon pioneers was barely highe...

The lab has set up a fund for "extras," such as educational, tech-transfer and arts activities --

Thousands of years after the invention of a formal writing system, a new study finds that the ancient people of the Middle East may have continued to use a more primitive way of recording information: clay tokens.

Decisive action is needed to curb Nigel Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation, which lobbies against climate change mitigation, says policy expert Bob Ward