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While wormholes are possible according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, it's unlikely that people will ever be able to travel through one, said renowned astrophysicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of...

(Brunel University) Expensive tests for measuring everything from sperm motility to cancer diagnosis have just been made hundreds of thousands of pounds cheaper by a Ph.D. student from Brunel University London who hacked...

Children born during or shortly after the 1997 El Niño, which saw 16 times more rain in northern Peru than usual, are shorter than they should be

I may be biased1, but to me there is no disputing the fact that radio galaxies are the most extreme objects in the universe.Radio galaxies are recognizable by their enormous jets and lobes of radiating plasma, driven out...

When it comes to conveying the wonder and scale of the brain, less is more

Metalworkers ate pistachios, grapes and imported fish at an Iron Age mining camp in the middle of a desert in modern-day Israel, archaeologists say.

You may never actually win a Nobel Prize, but that doesn't mean you can't take one these prestigious awards home with you.

Science is plagued by bias, sloppy methods and dodgy statistics. John Ioannidis has dedicated his career to pointing out the flaws and getting rid of them (full text available to subscribers)

Treat your friends or family to a science page-turner this Christmas. These 10 titles are a good place to start, and are up for grabs in our competition

Its on-going mission, to explore the strange new comet, to seek out new plumes of dust and gas, spewing from the warming surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

A compound called berberine that is found in plants and some Chinese herbal medicines may trigger the body to burn calories, a new study in mice finds.

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People who stick to a vegan diet can face their turkey-eating family with a bit more confidence this Thanksgiving. Two new studies show why a plant-based diet is best for losing weight and lowering the risk of diabetes a...

"I am bleeding just a little bit," said Raymond McCauley. "Might I ask for a little assistance?" McCauley, chair of Singularity University's biotechnology and bioinformatics track and a biohacker, had...

An official reason for the talks' postponement hasn't been given, but Iran's refusal to allow inspectors into the Parchin military site will have been a stumbling block

In the last few years, stories have abounded in the press of the successes of the Large Hadron Collider, most notably the discovery of the Higgs boson. --

Vultures' faces and large intestines are covered with bacteria that is toxic to most other creatures, but these birds of prey have evolved a strong gut that helps them not get sick from feasting on rotting flesh, accordi...

The universe's dark age lasted for 380,000 years after the big bang. Now we've found ways to pierce the fog before light was set free (full text available to subscribers)

Pedestrians avoid bumping into each other by anticipating when their paths would collide --

Students will help the MoEDAL experiment at CERN seek evidence of magnetic monopoles, microscopic black holes and other phenomena. For the first time, a high school has joined a high-energy physics experiment as a full m...

A relief of a mysterious, unknown god has been unearthed at an ancient Roman temple in southeastern Turkey.