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A mountain biker in New Mexico was lucky not to sustain a serious injury after he fell off his bike and had a wooden branch penetrate his neck, his doctors say.

A new theory says dark matter acts remarkably similar to subatomic particles known to science since the 1930s. We owe a lot to dark matter - it is the thing keeping galaxies, stars, our solar system, and our bodies intac...

A 1,500-year-old parchment could be one of the oldest known copies of the Quran, possibly dating back to a time that overlapped with the life of the Prophet Muhammad.

Promising results from a flurry of drug trials were announced today. Here's what you need to know about how these new drugs work

A modified rice that borrows a gene from barley reduces its production emissions by starving paddy field microbes of the sugar they use to produce methane

Bacteria have plenty of things to send out into world beyond their own boundaries: coordinating signals to other members of their species, poisons for their enemies, and devious instructions to manipulate host cells they...

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria may be tougher superbugs than previously thought: Not only are these bacteria harder to treat, they appear to be "fitter" in general.

Eyedrops can shrink cataracts in dogs, which may prove a first step toward a drug that can treat or even prevent cataracts in human eyes, researchers say.

The fungus Exidiopsis effusa has been determined to cause this odd phenomena that occurs on "rotten branches of certain trees."

A biomedical breakthrough published today in the journal Nature reveals never-before-seen details of the human body's cellular switchboard that regulates sensory and hormonal responses. The work is based on an X-ray lase...

Philae has stopped phoning home and its parents are worried. Meanwhile, communication is getting more complicated as the Rosetta orbiter moves on to the comet's south

Their accurate water jets rarely fail to down prey above water, but archerfish had to sharpen up to outdo their more numerous rivals under the surface

Atlantic bottlenose and spotted dolphins are cooperating in unique mixed-species groups that are mostly platonic, but sometimes cross-species sex is involved

Iraq's fabled marshes are seeing some of the lowest water levels since Saddam Hussein drained them in the 1990s

Two-generation epigenetic trick mean a species of fish can deal with devastating effects of warmer waters

Seminal fluid alters gene expression in females, including humans. It can even alter behaviour in fruit flies, but does it do the same in women?

Stars vibrate like musical instruments, a property that tells us about their insides - and that could reveal gigantic gravitational waves

The UK's Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists has issued a leaflet for women thinking of choosing a C-section - but some have accused it of bias

What is it about a scream that makes your blood run cold? Scientists have found the feature that makes them unlike any other human sound

The reason some people get catchy tunes stuck in their head more than others might be just because their brains are shaped differently

Roaches with electronic implants and managed by drones can be tasked to locate trapped people in the aftermath of an earthquake

Turtle eggs at risk from sea level rise, space bling fly-by, mini brains grown in a dish and more