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An Indiana woman's brain tumor that turned out to contain hair bone and teeth has been dubbed an "embryonic twin," but experts say that such tumors are not really twins, nor embryos.

If you look closely enough, Earth has rings. NASA estimates there are some 500,000 pieces of space debris in orbit. Space junk, traveling up to ten times the speed of...

A honeycomb is a very stable structure. If it has a larger hole, however, stability is largely lost. What might a honeycomb look like, which survives external forces in spite of a hole? Such stable types of known constru...

But its government has been cutting back on climate-change measures, even arguing for a reduction in renewable-energy targets

As the world's exponentially growing demand for digital data slows the Internet and cell phone communication, City College of New York researchers may have just figured out a new way to increase its speed.

A Spanish-led team of European researchers at the University of Cambridge has created an electronic device so accurate that it can detect the charge of a single electron in less than one microsecond. It has been dubbed t...

Scientists don't fully understand why mosquitoes prefer biting some people to others. But a new experiment suggests genes have something to do with it.

The limitations in a technique of human-genome editing make it too dangerous to use in human embryos at this point, many experts say.

Next month, the New York State Supreme Court will hear arguments about whether two research chimpanzees named Hercules and Leo should be considered persons, not property, entitled to the same rights as humans.

Online tools are revitalising old democratic practices - and might even mean the end for politicians. We look at the pros and cons of the new people power (full text available to subscribers)

A Columbia University oceanographer calls on drones to help study ice melt.

The recent outbreaks of whooping cough in the United States may be due, in part, to a change made two decades ago to vaccine ingredients, a new study finds.

Thermal imaging, microscopy and ultra-trace sensing could take a quantum leap with a technique developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

An NSF funded team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12-28 miles beneath ellowstone's supervolcano. The magma could fill the 1000 cubic-mile-Grand Canyon mor...

Modern humans may have arrived in Western Europe at about the same time as Neanderthals went extinct there, according to fossil teeth. The findings suggest modern humans caused the demise of Neanderthals, either directly...

The discovery of the world's largest known magma chamber reveals the plumbing beneath the Yellowstone volcano, helping solve some long-standing mysteries

Editing DNA in mouse egg cells has been used to remove faulty mitochondria, leaving only healthy ones behind to be inherited. It could offer an alternative to controversial three-parent IVF

A new species of frog shops around for the best sites to build a secret boudoir to give couples privacy and keep their offspring safe

Scientists have peeked inside the brain of a man with tinnitus to identify the brainwaves that underlie the debilitating sensation of ringing in the ear

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 25 tomorrow and like many other science organizations, we've compiled a list of some of our favorite Hubble images over the years. Stay tuned to the bottom where we will reveal the offici...

Scientists have proven the concept of the CUORE experiment, which will study neutrinos with the world’s coldest detector and ancient lead. Scientists on an experiment in Italy are looking for a process so rare, it is t...

If you look closely enough, Earth has rings. NASA estimates there are some 500,000 pieces of space debris in orbit. Space junk, traveling up to ten times the speed of...