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Hide and seek: Sterile neutrinos remain elusive -- CERN turns 60 and celebrates peaceful collaboration for science -- Synopsis: Searching for sterile neutrinos -- To catch a cosmic ray -- Physicist turns smartphones into...

The Daya Bay experiment, famous for studying neutrino mixing, is branching into a new area of neutrino physics. The experiment that produced the latest big discovery about ghostly particles called neutrinos is trying its...

The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the U.S., but most doctors still are not recommending the HPV vaccine to their male patients, according to a new study.

Another Arctic milestone was reached this week when a cargo ship fortified against ice completed a solo trip through the hazardous Northwest Passage.

Women with the personality trait of neuroticism may be at an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests.

A 3D-modelling system called Scene Chronology pulls photos from across the internet to automatically show how places have changed over time

RAILWAYS are one of humanity's most important inventions. But they can transport bad things as well as good, and one of those bad things is disease. In particular, suggests a paper just published in Science by a team led...

Vital organ? PEOPLE whose hearts are failing, or who have had cancer or lung disease, have good reason to be concerned about their future. People who have merely lost their sense of smell might not be so worried. Actuall...

From KQED Education Do Now: The Earth is warming. Since the early 20th Century, the global average temperature has increased approximately 1.4°F. How do we balance protecting species with human interests in dealing with...

A cosmic coincidence hints that high-energy neutrinos and superfast cosmic rays both come from the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy

If you want to know how long you'll live, your nose might help you sniff out the answer, a new study suggests.

In 1919 "Little Albert" was conditioned to fear harmless animals in an infamous experiment. Now it looks as if we've solved the mystery of his later life

Some of the very massive stars that populated the early universe exploded completely, sowing the seeds of future stars, solar systems and galaxies

The Daya Bay Collaboration, an international group of scientists studying the subtle transformations of subatomic particles called neutrinos, is publishing its first results on the search for a so-called sterile neutrino...

Ice-penetrating radar has uncovered a previously unknown ice-covered trench, and other detailed terrain, in the bedrock hidden beneath two massive, bluish glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica.

It's time to stop trying to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial averages, researchers argue. But not everyone is so quick to dismiss this prominent international goal.

Satellite images, released last week by NASA, reveal how a large section of the Aral Sea, a lake lying between Kazakhstan in the north and Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region of Uzbekistan, in the south, has dried out. ...

An unidentified man has contracted Ebola in the U.S. after visiting Liberia earlier this month. Until now, the only known cases of Ebola in the U.S. involved American doctors and aid workers who were infected while overs...

On the same day health officials said Nigeria and Senegal had managed to halt their Ebola virus disease outbreaks, the U.S. reported its first case of Ebola, sparking concerns the patient in Dallas could expose others to...

Stop worrying about Ebola and get a flu shot instead. It is far more deadly in the U.S. compared with Ebola and is responsible for some of the worst disease outbreaks in the country's history. In the past year, there hav...

So much ice has disappeared from West Antarctica that Earth's gravity is weaker.