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As astronomers continue finding new rocky planets around distant stars, high-pressure physicists are considering what the interiors of those planets might be like and how their chemistry could differ from that found on E...

Einstein's assertion that God does not play dice with the universe has been misinterpreted --

Researchers are just beginning to untangle the mystery of why more than half of Kazakhstan's critically endangered saigas died off in a few weeks in late May.

Tiny ocean creatures known as sea sapphires perform a sort of magic trick as they swim: One second they appear in splendid iridescent shades of blue, purple or green, and the next they may turn invisible (at least the bl...

When the U.S. military needs a new idea for drone technology, it turns to an unlikely source for inspiration: old fairytales.

Caffeine is in coffee, tea and other products that we consume every day, so why is the powdered form dangerous?

A new study examines how decisions are made when it comes to allocating scare resources. Imagine 12 patients who need new kidneys, and six kidneys available. How would you allocate them? This research suggests that your ...

Researchers hope to cut roadside dangers by using ever-shrinking radio sensors, GPS tracking, and connected vehicle technology to link highway workers to an alert network.

Exposure to air pollution has a direct adverse health effect on the liver and causes liver fibrosis, an illness associated with metabolic disease and liver cancer, scientists report.

Scientists have pinpointed a population of neurons in the brain that influences whether one drink leads to two, which could ultimately lead to a cure for alcoholism and other addictions. Their study finds that alcohol co...

Eight of 14 patients in the first trial of a personalized cellular therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) responded to the therapy, with some complete remissions continuing past four and a half years.

A Twitter hashtag, #JunkOff, illustrates the steamier side of biology -- and its importance to understanding evolution.

Getting a tooth pulled is never fun, but it's especially irksome if you're an aardvark.

A tiny multicellular animal has nothing recognizable as muscle or nerve cells. In fact it has no organs at all. And yet it can hunt down, dissolve and consume algae with surprising sophistication, new research shows.

An Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer cooling pump failures raises questions about its longevity --

An Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer cooling-pump failure raises questions about the instrument's longevity --

Here the animal called Trichoplax triggers algal cells to burst open and then sort of sucks up the spilled contents.

It turns out both sides are right when it comes to spinal manipulation therapy - yes, it works, and no, it doesn't. Depends on the patient.

Double mastectomies have sharply increased in men. But are they necessary?

The deadbeat boyfriend at the centre of Janet Jackson's 1986 hit What Have You Done For Me Lately used to take Janet out to dinner almost every night. He used...

Seismologists have traced the path of seismic waves to create a three dimensional scan of Earth's interior.

Mantle plumes, proposed rivers of hot rock in the Earth's mantle that stream up to the surface and form volcanic island chains, seem to anchor deep in the planet's interior, near the core-mantle boundary.