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The relatively lightly built skeletons of modern humans developed late in evolutionary history, and may have been the result of a shift away from a nomadic lifestyle to a more settled one, according to a new study.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday it will drop its 31-year ban on gay and bisexual men donating blood, as the science of HIV detection and treatment advances. The ban dates from the first, terrifyin...

A new study shows that the delicate, repetitive finger movements used on a smartphone's touchscreen result in a change in the brain's sensory processing area.

Packaging their presents in silk means more time between the sheets for some eight-legged lovers (full text available to subscribers)

In the brain, the information from real events that we see flows "up" from one brain lobe to another, but the images that we imagine flow "down," new research finds.

If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, why haven't we found it? Here's our guide to humanity's best attempts

Here are our favorite health and fitness apps including: workout apps, calorie counters, sleep trackers, running and walking apps and more.

Find out the odds of a white Christmas for every location in the continental U.S., all on one map.

The European Space Agency's Gaia space telescope has loose fibres that are scattering too much light into its camera, making it harder to map the Milky Way

Fossilized rod and cone cells -- the kinds that help people see -- have been discovered for the first time, researchers say.

We’re heading towards a world of perfect knowledge. Soon you’ll be able to know anything you want, anytime, anywhere, and query that data for answers and insights. Why is this...

Researchers monitoring the health of coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean have sounded an alarm over widespread coral bleaching -- an effect of warming and acidifying oceans -- in a new study published Monday in the journal ...

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL), working with the National Radiotherapy Trials Quality Assurance Group, has produced a video guide to support physicists participating in radiation dosimetry audits.

When I visited the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod in early 2013 for an open house for prospective students, in many senses I was feeling under the weather. --

Here's a look at just a few of the ways new light-based tools have deepened our understanding of living systems and set the stage for future medical advances.

Football, NASCAR and their rowdy, roaring crowds were pitted in a head-to-head battle this year to see which sport hits highest on the seismic charts.

Explore all the rivers in the US in this interactive map, in which each waterway is coloured according to its direction of flow

Metamaterials have extraordinary properties when it comes to diverting and controlling waves, especially sound and light: for instance, they can make an object invisible, or increase the resolving power of a lens. Now, r...

At least six million Americans who identify themselves as "white" have more "black" DNA than white people in other parts of the United States, according to a recent study published in the American Journal of Human Geneti...

Exploring buoyancy with this quick experiment

The percentage of Americans taking medication to control their cholesterol levels has risen by a third over the past decade, a new study finds.

(Science China Press) A recent study found out that the gradient of pre-stresses plays an important role in the accurate elastodynamic equations for inhomogeneous media. Thus, it shades a light on the seismology, the NDT...