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Watch out, Sherlock, there's a new Dr. Watson in town. IBM's Watson, the computer that famously won the quiz show 'Jeopardy!', is now helping researchers make scientific discoveries.

One of the most effective methods used by HIV to evade control is to hide from the immune system.

Ever wish you could erase any one of those bad memories you've compiled over the years? There's good news, if you're a mouse at least. Scientists have successfully reversed memories from unhappy to happy (insofar as rode...

UF Health Cancer Center's treatment for lymphedema has been described as "life-changing". Patients are flying down to the Orlando Hospital from all over the country for the procedure.

NASA has announced that it will launch a rocket designed to carry humans to Mars in 2018, allowing amateur astronomers and science fiction buffs across the world to bask in the idea that humans could walk across the red ...

A tenfold increase in protected coral species was announced Wednesday, with 20 new corals added to the threatened species list.

An extensive look at the genome of the Ebola virus reveals its behavior, when it arrived in West Africa and how it spread in the region to cause the largest-ever recorded Ebola outbreak.

Children's classics like The Very Hungry Caterpillar have come to life for visually impaired children thanks to 3D-printed Braille text and tactile pictures

Vitamins, minerals, fish oils... the list of nutritional supplements you can buy keeps growing. Some are worth it, some aren't. We sift the evidence for you (full text available to subscribers)

A new study of human DNA -- and the largest genetics study yet of ancient peoples -- reveals that the Paleo-Eskimos are genetically distinct from both the Neo-Eskimos and modern Native Americans.

Life the frigid Arctic is challenging, but humans have populated the region for thousands of years. Now, a new study suggests the first groups of people to live in the Arctic region of the Americas do not have any descen...

Recently, the research group of Professor Jairo Sinova from the Institute of Physics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in collaboration with researchers from the UK, Prague, and Japan, has for the first time realise...

A new study may upend some assumptions about bear smarts.

Families have identifiable collections of microbes that travel with them. It can take just 24 hours for the microbes to take over a new house

When rabbits were domesticated, around 100 regions of their genome changed to make them less fearful, but the variations are not fixed

Last week, Singularity University hosted the Closing Ceremony of its 2014 Graduate Studies Program, the pinnacle of an annual program that brought 80 entrepreneurs and visionaries from 35 countries to Silicon Valley for ...

Peter Guest discovers how studying the way diseases jump from animals to humans sometimes means wrestling pigs in a slum that doesn't officially exist

The sun as Borexino sees it in real time -- Do we live in a 2-D hologram? -- New UK facility aims to protect next generation microchips from cosmic ray chaos -- Experiment tests whether universe is a hologram -- Quark qu...

If you've ever wanted to travel to the planet Arrakis, or you've made it a point to become fluent in Klingon, this may be a job for you.

A crèche of 30 dinosaur infants looked over by an older animal shows that even terrible lizards needed a night away from the kids

A new paper from researchers at the Australian National University is making waves in physics this month; the group claims to have developed a "tractor beam" of sorts. However, as is usual for claims of science-fiction t...

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