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The bacteria that cause cholera grab genes from other organisms in a particularly predatory way: They spear neighboring cells with a poison-tipped spike.

Your Fitbit could tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Personal data from wearable technology is now being used in court

An ancient, two-sided amulet uncovered in Cyprus contains a 59-letter inscription that reads the same backwards as it does forwards.

Two Norwegians are enduring darkness for months on end as they conduct experiments from a hovercraft floating on Arctic ice

She married, divorced and then professionally reconciled with science icon Stephen Hawking. Read her feelings about the film that tells their incredible story

Scientists have discovered what they believe to be the connection between red meat and cancer, which have long been linked by researchers. A team of scientists from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) discovere...

(University of Utah Health Sciences) Results from a study published on Jan. 1 in Science defy textbook science, showing for the first time that the building blocks of a protein, called amino acids, can be assembled witho...

Come out, come out, wherever you are! -- Mysterious neutrinos create new particles out of nothing in 'glancing blows' on matter -- Brain observatories and dark matter: Scientists' resolutions for 2015 -- The arXiv prepri...

New research findings point toward a class of compounds that could be effective in combating infections caused by enterovirus D68, which has stricken children with serious respiratory infections and might be associated w...

A statistical model has been created that measures the proportion of cancer incidence, across many tissue types, caused mainly by random mutations that occur when stem cells divide. By this measure, two-thirds of adult c...

When it comes to skin infections, a healthy and robust immune response may depend greatly upon what lies beneath. In a new paper, researchers report the surprising discovery that fat cells below the skin help protect us ...

Results from a new study defy textbook science, showing for the first time that the building blocks of a protein, called amino acids, can be assembled without blueprints - DNA and an intermediate template called messenge...

Cell biologists have targeted telomeres with a small molecule called 6-thiodG that takes advantage of the cell's 'biological clock' to kill cancer cells and shrink tumor growth.