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A new study links the virus that causes chicken pox and shingles to a condition that inflames blood vessels on the temples and scalp in the elderly, called giant cell arteritis. The condition can cause sudden blindness o...

Terpenes and their derivatives exert important biological and pharmaceutical functions. Starting out from a few basic building blocks nature elegantly builds up complex structures. Chemically particularly challenging are...

How you cope with stress before it happens could affect how you feel the next day, a new study suggests. Some strategies, like daydreaming about the problem fixing itself, might make you feel worse.

Lovely photos of the loneliest parks in the United States.

Inside your head, another brain is hiding in plain sight - one that responds to your cognitive needs and self-heals. It's time to make the most of your myelin (full text available to subscribers)

Last week, we posted the first half of an interview with Marc Goodman, author of the upcoming book Future Crimes. In that first installment, Goodman looked ahead to the weird...

A new site that lets people sell secret documents online will make life easier for whistleblowers – and blackmailers

Dinosaurs in mortal combat, an ichthyosaur birth, a fish catching a fish-catching pterosaur: these seven fossils show prehistoric beasts living and dying

A staggering 292.8 million visitors toured a national park, seashore or historic site in 2014, topping the previous record of 287.2 million visits set in 1987.

There's an old story that dogs can smell cancer. At first, it sounds like an urban legend. And while it isn't untrue--there is evidence dogs can smell cancer--the research isn't...

A research team led by the University of Chicago's Dmitri Talapin has demonstrated how semiconductors can be soldered and still deliver good electronic performance.

Incoming space rocks break up and burn in the atmosphere, and their danger depends on how low they can go - now we can predict their flame-out height

If you're not yet familiar with the concept of a blockchain, you soon will be. The technology, which began with bitcoin, could have far bigger implications

"Every 13 seconds an older person falls in the U.S. and has to be rushed to a hospital," according the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The center has opened a clinic to help slow this disturbing trend.

The world's largest particle collider is gearing up for another run of smashing particles together at nearly the speed of light. With it slated to run at energies more powerful than any previous particle accelerator, wha...

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Thanks to thousands of photos snapped from the air, Rio de Janeiro's famous landmark can now be experienced on your screen in 3D

Male Darwin's bark spider use genital lubrication and binding to stop their mates from eating them after copulation

Not too far away, there's a giant gas cloud drifting towards the Milky Way galaxy. Known as the Smith Cloud and made up mostly of hydrogen, it should merge with our home system in about 30 million years. On this week's p...

A new model describing atomic nuclei, proposed by a physicist from the University of Warsaw Faculty of Physics, more accurately predicts the properties of various exotic isotopes that are created in supernova explosions ...

A computational technique to analyze how water vapor condenses on a surface patterned with an array of tiny pillars has been co-developed by an A*STAR researcher. Calculations carried out using this technique reveal that...

Scientists from Vienna and Moscow have created a high-energy mid-infrared laser powerful enough to create shining filaments in the air. Such devices could be used to detect chemical substances in the atmosphere.