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Scientists have identified more than 800 markers in the blood of cancer patients that could help lead to a single blood test for early detection of many types of cancer in future, according to researchers.

(Reuters) - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Saturday, 186 miles (300 km) west-northwest of Tonga, the U.S. Geological Survey said. There was no immediate tsunami alert following the quake, accor...

It may not compare to the invention of the wheel, but scientists say they have discovered the catchiest pop song in history -- and it's a spicy revelation. "Wannabe," the debut hit from "The Spice Girls," was the most ea...

Using mathematical toolkits traditionally considered the property of statistical physics and artificial intelligence, researchers have developed a way to identify important cancer mutations. This approach can model the e...

An antibody abundant in mice and previously thought to offer poor assistance in fighting against infection may actually play a key role in keeping immune responses in check and preventing more serious self-inflicted form...

Invisible tattoos could replace the permanent dark ink tattoos used to ensure that breast cancer patients having radiotherapy are treated in exactly the same spot during each session, according to results from a pilot st...

Febrile seizures are among the most dreaded complications of infectious diseases in small children. An international research team has now made a breakthrough by demonstrating the existence of a previously unknown cause ...

A novel substance for the treatment of severe bacterial infections has been developed to work without antibiotics. Scientists say that this would prevent the development of antibiotic resistance.

A novel time-reversal technology is being applied by researchers that allows them to better focus light in tissue, such as muscles and organs. Current high-resolution optical imaging technology allows researchers to see ...

An extraordinary competition is underway--one that could be more impactful to the human species than any other technological rivalry to come before it. Soon, the radical concept of substantially improving...

Usually, light waves do not interact with each other. Coupling of photons with other photons is only possible with the help of special materials and very intense light. Scientists in Vienna have now created the strongest...

A disappearing act was the last thing Rice University physicist Randy Hulet expected to see in his ultracold atomic experiments, but that is what he and his students produced by colliding pairs of Bose Einstein condensat...

As a child, it was fascinating to put a flashlight up to our palms to see the light shine through the hand. Washington University in St. Louis engineers are using a similar idea to track movement inside the body's tissue...

A timely conversation with physicist Sean M. Carroll about how our one-way trip from the past to the future is entangled with entropy and the origin of the universe --

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It's a well-known fact: 70 percent of the earth's surface is covered in water. What scientists haven't been sure of is when, exactly, oceans first appeared. But research by scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst...

(Rice University) How can two clumps of matter pass through each other without sharing space? Rice University physicists have documented a strange disappearing act by colliding Bose Einstein condensates that appear to ke...

(Vienna University of Technology) Usually, light waves do not interact with each other. Coupling of photons with other photons is only possible with the help of special materials and very intense light. Scientists in Vie...

(Institute of Physics) In this month's issue of Physics World, James Dacey explores the ways in which physicists are bridging the 'valley of death' to take their innovations from the lab into the commercial market.