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In your body, the bacteria cells outnumber the human cells, and in recent years, researchers have begun to pay more attention to these microbes and their impact on our health.

During the worst week yet in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa -- the virus has now spread from Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to Nigeria and Senegal as of Friday -- GlaxoSmithKline plc announced Thursday that it will ...

Batteries will soon get the energy boost from sugar that we do.

Methane plumes erupting, a walking fish and endangered coral species -- just a few of the amazing photos this week in Science.

Think a dead snake never hurt anybody? Think again.

Making something new is never easy. Scientists constantly theorize about new materials, but when the material is manufactured it doesn't always work as expected. To create a new strategy for designing materials, scientis...

A new research platform uses a laser to measure the "nanomechanical" properties of tiny structures undergoing stress and heating, an approach likely to yield insights to improve designs for microelectronics and batteries...

On the one-hundredth anniversary of the last passenger pigeon's death, reflections on the loss of darkened skies.

Powerful lectures chock full of information sometimes can be challenging to process and the need for visualization is so great that ultimately it takes an organization like the RSA to find a highly creative way to illust...

A team of international scientists has conducted a new study, which shows that many genes controlling the development of the brain and the nervous system played a significant role in domesticating wild rabbits thousands ...

What makes our sun shine has been a mystery for most of human history.

Glass has many applications that call for different properties, such as resistance to thermal shock or to chemically harsh environments. Glassmakers commonly use additives such as boron oxide to tweak these properties by...

(Neural Regeneration Research) Dr. Man Lu and co-workers from Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital in China evaluated 34 patients with persistent clinical symptoms and neurologic signs of impaired nerve function.