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For the past 25 years, my beat as a journalist has been covering those moments in time when science fiction became science fact. As a result, and on a good...

There are better ways to help Africa prosper than ripping up protected park borders in the hunt for oil and gas, says Curtis Abraham

Enjoy this week's stories! COMPUTING: Moore's Law Shows Its Age Don Clark | Wall Street Journal "At first, Moore's Law was largely a yardstick for chip engineers. It gradually became a...

Stephen McAdams played movie tunes to Mbenzélé pygmies in the Congo rainforest to find out whether music is a universal language

(Georgetown University Medical Center) Poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer, compared with European-American patients, appears to be due, in part, to a strong survival ...

The SmartWatch 3 is a smartwatch from Sony that can runs the Android Wear operating system.

Poorer outcomes for African-American women with estrogen-receptor positive breast cancer, compared with European-American patients, appears to be due, in part, to a strong survival mechanism within the cancer cells, acco...

Excessive movement common among children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is actually vital to how they remember information and work out complex cognitive tasks, a new study shows. The findings show the lon...

A molecular mechanism responsible for making malaria parasites resistant to artemisinins, the leading class of antimalarial drugs, has been discovered by researchers. Artemisinins are powerful drugs that have the most ra...

Hospitals may reach higher safety and quality levels with programs that give physicians real-time feedback about evidence-based care and financial incentives for providing it, research shows.

Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in 2010, many people were concerned that seafood was contaminated by either the oil or dispersants used to keep the oil from washing ashore. A new study found that all seafood te...