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People who have fewer moles may be at higher risk for aggressive skin cancer than those with more moles, according to a new study.

A rare bloom from a huge tropical plant has crowds in Denver waiting in line for hours.

A team at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics has created a laser capable of generating ultrashort pulses of light even under extremely difficult external conditions. This unique combination of precision and res...

Ancient marks on 3.4-million-year-old animal bones were not caused by trampling -- a finding that raises the odds that they were made by deliberate cutting by human ancestors.

Addyi, the new libido-enhancing pill for women, was approved by the FDA, but many health care professionals are still skeptical about whether women really need the drug.

Researchers from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan have created highly flexible, efficient white LEDs with potential use in wearable displays and non-flat surfaces, such as curved and flexible television screens. Wh...

Besides the atoms that make up our bodies and all of the objects we encounter in everyday life, the universe also contains mysterious dark matter and dark energy. The latter, which causes galaxies to accelerate away from...

Most U.S. contact wearers engage in bad hygiene habits with their lenses that could increase the risk of eye infection, according to a new report.

We now know how to turn fat cells into ones that burn calories as heat rather than store them - raising the prospect of a gene therapy for obesity

Results of the XENON100 experiment are a bright spot in the search for dark matter. The team of international scientists involved in the project demonstrated the sensitivity of their detector and recorded results that ch...

It made headlines, but a claim to have cultured a nearly fully formed brain is "entirely unjustified", say neuroscientists contacted by New Scientist

Something mysterious is happening on the surface of Pluto: No matter how much nitrogen the atmosphere releases into space, it's still chock-full of the stuff. New work examines the possible culprits for the stealthy nitr...

The Atlantic just got its first hurricane of the season. According to the latest update from National Hurricane Center, Danny passed the hurricane test with wind speeds in excess of 75 mph and a developed eye.

Graffiti in an ancient cave in China reveals a history of droughts in the region, and may portend climate troubles, new research suggests.

By combining information about power plant operation with real-time air quality predictions, researchers have created a new capability to minimize the human health effects of air pollution resulting from electric power g...

After nearly 10 years without a case of plague, California has seen two cases already this summer. What's behind the return of plague to the state?

Water locked away in rocks for 1.5 billion years reveals conditions were right for complex organic molecules to form in deep sea hydrothermal vents

Physicists have created a so-called magnetic wormhole that transports a magnetic field from one point to the other without being detected.

A frozen observatory has spotted ghostly, nearly massless particles coming from inside our galaxy and points beyond the Milky Way. Finding these cosmic neutrinos also sheds light on the origins of cosmic rays, the resear...

Controversial and more specific science pages on Wikipedia may contain less trustworthy, overly technical or limited information, research suggests.

Photos reveal the huge laboratory under Antarctica's ice where detectors scan the heavens for ghostly particles called neutrinos.

"If the transcension hypothesis is correct, inner space, not outer space, is the final frontier for universal intelligence. Our destiny is density." - John Smart Only decades into our "age...