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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...