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A girl in Canada experienced an unusual allergic reaction to blueberry pie -- she was not allergic to any of the pie's ingredients, but instead reacted to antibiotic residue in the food.

Wild marmosets that watched a video -- a short flick of a marmoset opening a box to get a banana slice -- are likely to copy the what they saw in the video and open the box themselves, a new study finds.

Mysterious new animals discovered offshore of Australia are so unusual that an entire new taxonomic family was created to classify them.

Iceland's fiery Holuhraun eruption may soon reach into a nearby glacier, triggering an explosive showdown between lava and ice.

Calico, the Google-backed venture seeking to cheat death, announced today (Sept. 3) that it plans to build an anti-aging drug research center in the San Francisco Bay Area under a $1.5-billion partnership with the pharma...

Mammals were long thought to have evolved nocturnal lifestyles as a way to co-exist with dinosaurs, but new research finds that nighttime behavior may have evolved 100 million years earlier than mammals did.

Airline pilots and cabin crews appear to have twice the risk of developing skin cancer melanoma compared to the general population, a new review of past studies finds.

A September packed with events to celebrate CERN's 60th anniversary -- Chameleons and holograms: Dark energy hunt gets weird -- New UK facility aims to protect next generation microchips from cosmic ray chaos -- The chal...

Japanese whalers will resume hunting minke whales in the Antarctic next year as part of a revised so-called scientific research program, the government announced Wednesday. Officials said Japan hopes to bypass a U.N. cou...

Nanoscale explosives made from spherical carbon molecules could fight off a bacterial or viral army

Women in physics tend to be outnumbered by men nearly all over the world. For a few days in early August, however, it didn't feel that way when I attended the International Conference on Women in... --

Hand gestures can be detected by the reflections of cellphone radio wave signals - allowing them to be recognised by any phone

This week on the podcast, things get a bit bizarre. I'm talking with physicist Gabriela Barreto Lemos about a new imaging technique where the photons that "see" an object are never collected by the camera; and the photon...

Lurking some 3.2 miles (5.1 kilometers) beneath the Pacific Ocean, a massive mountain rises up from the seafloor, say scientists who discovered the seamount using sonar technology.

Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol and her husband held a news conference today about their battle with the deadly disease.

Marmosets in a Brazilian forest have learned to retrieve a treat from a device by watching a video of a monkey completing the task in the lab

See the ocean-dwelling animals that resemble deep-sea mushrooms. Discovered offshore of Australia, the mysterious creatures are similar to jellyfish but were classified in a new taxonomic family.

A seamount rises up from one of the least explored areas of the central Pacific Ocean. The structure was mapped with sonar, revealing a conical structure with 23-degree slopes.

A 51-year-old doctor who resides Boston has become the third American health care worker to contract Ebola during the current outbreak in West Africa.

The quest to make a real-life version of Star Trek's pocket doctor could pay off, with gadgets including tiny blood tests and a digital consultant

We might enjoy a day off from our jobs this Labor Day, but our cellular workers never rest.

From falcons to cockroaches, a myriad of different animals have donned backpacks in the name of science.