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(Reuters) - A veteran Russian cosmonaut and two International Space Station crewmates, one from the United States and one from Germany, returned safely to Earth on Sunday with a parachute landing of their Soyuz capsule i...

The skeletons of two infants were found at the Upward Sun River site in central Alaska. They were found beneath the remains of a 3-year-old child that was cremated.

The effects of chronic marijuana use on the brain may depend on age of first use and duration of use, according to new research. Researchers for the first time comprehensively describe existing abnormalities in brain fun...

Scientists suspect Antarctica's shrinking glaciers are melting from the bottom up, and a fleet of robot ocean gliders may help explain why.

People's risk of developing heart disease depends on their biology, such as their age and gender, but it also varies based on their place of resident. Here's how states fare when it comes to heart disease risk.

Thousands of young U.S. children have ingested laundry detergent pods in recent years, leading researchers to call for safer packing of the colorful capsules, according to a new study.

Divers have recovered a bronze bell from the wreck of the HMS Erebus, a British ship that was missing for nearly 170 years after an ill-fated expedition to the Canadian Arctic.

Underwater archaeologists were the first people in nearly 170 years to lay eyes on HMS Erebus, a British ship that sank during an ill-fated exploration of the Canadian Arctic.

Pretreatment interstitial lung disease is a significant risk factor for developing symptomatic and severe radiation pneumonitis in stage I non-small cell lung cancer patients treated with stereotactic body radiation ther...

From Tibet's endangered ecosystems to the crazy cost of saving beaches to New York's green example, three books probe the price tag of development

Tiny electrically activated "muscles" could one day give rise to microscopic robots that are smaller than a grain of sand, researchers say.

An aldehyde molecule gives blood its distinctive smell - Siberian tigers and wild dogs even chomped on wood smeared with the stuff

Preventing future Ebola outbreaks in West Africa will require more than vaccines and an infusion of skilled health workers; it will involve a complete overhaul of the region's fractured health care systems, health expert...

Baby birth weight charts in Canada may not accurately classify babies born to immigrant women, particularly those from South Asia and East Asia.

What do mathematics and cooking have in common? They both involve a search for beauty in the world around us, one mathematician says.

The weather is fine and the future on display. I’m in San Diego covering Singularity University's Exponential Medicine conference through Wednesday. The four-day event kicked off yesterday at the Hotel Del...

Researchers have found that prescription opioids, including methadone, were involved in 67.8 percent of -- or over 135,971 visits to -- emergency department visits in 2010 in the U.S., with the highest proportion of opio...

A therapeutic target that could lead to the development of new treatments for specific blood cancers has been identified by researchers. Using laboratory models, they found that 'switching off' half the gene in the Mpl r...

Neuroscientists discovered that statins, a popular class of cholesterol drugs, reverse the learning deficits caused by a mutation linked to a common genetic cause of learning disabilities. The findings were studied in mi...

Thousands of never-before-seen genetic variants in the human genome have been uncovered using a new genome sequencing technology. These discoveries close many human genome mapping gaps that have long resisted sequencing....

Immigrant women give birth to about one-third of the babies born in Ontario. Yet clinicians still measure those babies before and after birth using the same scales that measure babies whose mothers were born in Canada, o...

Oncology researchers studying gene mutations in the childhood cancer neuroblastoma are refining their diagnostic tools to predict which patients are more likely to respond to drugs called ALK inhibitors that target such ...