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Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center say a drug used to treat bone marrow cancer can restore hair for people suffering from alopecia areata. The researchers found ruxolitinib, which already has been approved...

A wildfire is spreading uncontrolled in Yosemite National Park in Northern California, prompting authorities on Monday night to close a nearby highway and evacuate 13,000 people from the popular tourist area. The fire is...

Pregnant? Then you should get a flu shot, according to new guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Food Poisoning From an infographic for Foodborne Chicago by Payal Patel Designs Those moules frites you had at the French bistro last night were delicious, but now you're feeling kind of funny. Worse than funny. Actually...

Imagine an armored truck that can drive itself, is invisible to enemies and can travel at extreme speeds. That's the type of truck the Pentagon is hoping to develop through its new ground X-vehicle (GXV-T) program.

Imagine an armored truck that can drive itself, is invisible to enemies and can travel at extreme speeds. That's the type of truck the Pentagon is hoping to develop through its new ground X-vehicle program.

Earth's magnetic field, a familiar directional indicator over long distances, is routinely probed in applications ranging from geology to archaeology. Now it has provided the basis for a technique which might, one day, b...

About a third of people who buy a smart wearable, such as a fitness tracker or smartwatch, abandon the device after six to 12 months, according to a recent poll.

Black holes are some of the strangest objects in the universe, and they typically fall into one of two size extremes: "small" ones that are dozens of times more massive than the sun and other "supermassive" black holes t...

Life is throwing ever more information our way. But there are simple tracks that can help us cope, says neuroscientist Daniel Levitin (full text available to subscribers)

Although intelligent life may exist on other planets, The Copernicus Complex by Caleb Scharf argues that Earth will still be special after all

A fungus that turns worker ants into zombie henchmen has a surprisingly clever strategy to recruit new hosts.

NASA's decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite is still bearing fruit with the discovered of the object in the Messier 82 galaxy. The black hole (M82 X-1) weighs in at about 400 solar masses. Full Sto...

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Anyone who has ever had a glass of fizzy soda knows that bubbles can throw tiny particles into the air. But in a finding with wide industrial applications, Princeton researchers have demonstrated that the bursting bubble...

The invention of fibre optics revolutionized the way we share information, allowing us to transmit data at volumes and speeds we'd only previously dreamed of.

Pint-size pikas survived Oregon's Dollar Lake fire, providing new insight into their resiliency to environmental change.

Rumours of dubious treatments are spreading on social media in West Africa, while fishy Ebola treatments are being peddled to anxious US citizens

The surge in the illegal ivory trade is shrinking Africa's elephant population by up to 3 per cent a year, which could ultimately wipe out the species

Chemists can now use a test to identify counterfeit coffee made with filler ingredients like soybean, corn and twigs.

The floods that have killed over 100 people in the Himalayan region are exactly what climate scientists have been warning of

An ancient fossil, discovered in the early 1900s and long considered an "evolutionary misfit," finally found its rightful place in the tree of life after a team of scientists at the University of Cambridge linked it to t...