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Changes in children's gut microbes could signal the onset of type-1 diabetes, but engineered probiotic bacteria could help treat the disease

In a first-of-its-kind case, a pair of conjoined lizards called Quince monitor lizards were discovered at a German zoo, according to a new report.

Some people may be wondering whether it's too late to get vaccinated against the measles now. Here's what experts say.

The biggest rodent to ever live had large front teeth that it used the way elephants use their tusks, new research shows.

Scientists found some weird little organisms in the NYC subway system, from traces of pathogens like the plague and anthrax, to marine microbes thought to be native to Antarctica, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, bacteria fr...

Astronomers hoped Pluto's craters would hold a record of impacts from its neighbours, which are too small to see – a new study dashes those hopes

Charismatic coco de mer palm trees of Seychelles seem to be unique among plants in caring for their seedlings with a novel use of leaves

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A novel approach to growing nanowires promises a new means of control over their light-emitting and electronic properties. In a recent issue of Nano Letters, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berke...

This year's Sci-Tech awards include improvements in appearances of trees and hairstyles for movies. Originally published: Feb 5 2015 - 11:00am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Emilie Lorditch, Editor(Inside Science) -- ...

From the way you arrange your furniture to the junk on your table, your living space speaks volumes about your personality (full text available to subscribers)

The new NY Bridge will replace a crumbling relic across New York's Hudson River with a flashy design called cable-stay that is gaining popularity with bridge engineers --

The show’s executive producer explains how a niche particle physics blog wound up in a recent plot. In Thursday’s episode of The Big Bang Theory, two of the show’s main characters, Leonard and Sheldon, publish a pa...

Enjoying a day at the beach in summer, stretched out on the sand, provides a good opportunity to observe how a granular material behaves.

Let's stop drawing lines in the sand when it comes to genetically modifying people and talk about engineering everybody, says Michael Le Page

Most quantum physics research to date has used particles such as atoms and electrons to observe quantum mechanical behaviour. Professor Mika Sillanpää of Aalto University is now working in the relatively new field of u...

A team of researchers with the University of California has found a way to use a transmission electron microscope (TEM) as a thermometer for measuring heat in micro-electric devices. In their paper published in the journ...

Proteins are the building blocks of all living things, and they exist in virtually unlimited varieties, most of whose highly complex structures have not yet been determined. Those structures could be key to developing ne...

Self-awareness by the link elf, the time itself unsorted soon, when news comes round again and more (full text available to subscribers)

The hefty stone slab, up for sale in England as a garden ornament, holds a mysterious pattern on its front, one that may be a form of writing, an archaeologist says.

A device for precisely positioning small objects using acoustic waves has now been used to position fragile protein crystals a few micrometers or less in size in the path of a crystallography X-ray beam. This technique w...

Hose-wielding humanoid robots could one day keep Navy firefighters out of harm's way.