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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.

Sleep difficulties may be linked to faster rates of decline in brain volume, according to a study. "It is not yet known whether poor sleep quality is a cause or consequence of changes in brain structure," said a study au...

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.

When cells divide, protein filmanets called Microtubles transport chromosomes into daughter cells. These filaments are formed when proteins called Tubulin snap together (like legos). After completing the task they fall a...

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...

Athletic performance varies from day to day, which can make it difficult for strength and conditioning professionals to judge whether athletes' improvements are due to effective training. Now, researchers have establishe...

An ideal anti-cancer treatment -- one that's immediately lethal to cancer cells, harmless to healthy cells, and resistant to cancer's relapse -- is still a dream. New research takes a step closer to the realization of th...

Patients who underwent weight loss operations in recent years, when most bariatric surgical centers were accredited, had fewer postoperative complications and were 2.3 times less likely to die in the hospital than patien...

It is a scene straight out of Hollywood: A deadly virus spreads uncontrollably across Africa; quarantines fail; economies hang in the balance; thousands of people are infected - more than half of whom will die - and ther...

Traumatic Axonal Injury is a form of traumatic brain injury that can have detrimental effects on the integrity of the brain's white matter and lead to cognitive impairments. A new study investigated white matter damage i...

Genetic mutations in endometrioid endometrial carcinoma (EEC), the most common form of this cancer of the uterine lining, have been identified by scientists. With endometrial cancer, the most common gynecological cancer ...

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...

Nation states cause some of our biggest problems, from civil war to climate inaction. Science suggests there are better ways to run a planet (full text available to subscribers)

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.