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The 14th annual Wellcome Image Awards were presented on March 18, highlighting 20 incredible medical images that ranged from the uterus of a pregnant pony and a cat's tongue to a mouse brain and greenfly eye.

Gamma-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation. They can be used to treat cancer, and gamma-ray bursts are studied by astronomers.

Hospitals come up with great strategies for dealing with problems all the time, but there's no guarantee that other places will learn from their example

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Prize-winning images in medicine, St. Patrick's Day auroras and the tornado forecast for 2015 -- just a taste of our favorite photos in Science.

Star Wars' beloved droid C-3PO's astounding translation abilities might be the most useful in everyday life, and the most likely to be replicated by real-life AI.

On Sunday (March 22), Richard's fans will kick off a week of events complete with fireworks, choirs and solemn processions to celebrate the reburial of the medieval king.

The challenges facing the UK National Health Service go far beyond political wrangling. To tackle them we'll need to leap technological and ideological hurdles

How do you get kids into clinical trials when the restrictions stack against them? An Xbox Kinect can help.

A new study shows how changing working methods in surgery can significantly reduce bacterial resistance to antibiotics, while maintaining protection against infection and reducing costs by up to 60%.

A new studysheds light on the handing over of genetic control from mother to offspring early in development. Learning how organisms manage this transition could help researchers understand larger questions about how embr...

Hypermethylation - the epigenetic ability to turn down or turn off a bad gene implicated in 10 to 30 percent of patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Frontotemporal Degeneration (FTD) - serves as a protec...