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"Wormholes" are cosmic tunnels that can connect two distant regions of the universe, and have been popularised by the dissemination of theoretical physics and by works of science fiction like Stargate, Star Trek or, more...

Prof. Juan de Pablo's 20-year exploration of the unusual properties of glass began, oddly enough, with the microscopic animals known as water bears.

The existence of parallel universes may seem like something cooked up by science fiction writers, with little relevance to modern theoretical physics. But the idea that we live in a "multiverse" made up of an infinite nu...

Researchers at the University of Kansas working with an international team at the Large Hadron Collider have produced quark-gluon plasma--a state of matter thought to have existed right at the birth of the universe--with...

Plug your state's info into the CDC's tool to estimate how much chronic diseases are costing your state.

See how much your state spends on 6 health conditions.

French authorities confirmed today (Sept. 3) that the airplane part that washed up on an island in the Indian Ocean in July came from Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370.

Game on: As a new football season hits, make it a point to get familiar with your own stats.

Not to worry, Denali is still North America's tallest peak.

Men and women exposed in early gestation to the human-made Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 in regions with extreme food shortages were 1.5 times more likely to be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in adulthood. There was no dia...

Companies focused on "true wealth" look beyond cash, and the movement is spawning cutting-edge technologies.

At the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in September, members of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) and their colleagues will describe an experiment conducted over si...

Essential oils are popular, and they sure smell good. But do they work?

Much like birds fly in flocks to conserve energy and ants create complex nests to protect their queens, immune cells engage in coordinated behavior to wipe out viruses like the flu. Scientists discovered that cells calle...

The gut is an important reservoir for drug-resistant bacteria responsible for life-threatening hospital-acquired infections. A study in mice reports that two of the most common antibiotic-resistant bacterial species circ...

Working in mice, researchers showed they could reduce glucose production in the liver and lower blood sugar levels. They did so by shutting down a liver protein involved in making glucose, an approach that may help treat...

A protein known to play a role in transporting the molecular contents of normal cells into and out of various intracellular compartments can also turn such cells cancerous by stimulating a key growth-control pathway.

Using computational and experimental methods, researchers have developed a technique for creating so-called protein-DNA nanowires -- a hybrid biomaterial that could have important applications.

A leaf seems so simple, until you try to recreate its ability to store the sun's energy.

A new approach that uses light to move mirrors could usher in a new generation of laser technology for a wide range of applications, including remote sensing, self-driving car navigation and 3D biomedical imaging.

Children's immune systems are less likely to be hypersensitive if they are exposed to rural dirt, but one enzyme may also be vital for this effect

A 1,800-year-old sarcophagus that archaeologists are calling the rarest one ever discovered was unearthed last week during a building project -- but construction workers are now being accused of damaging, and then trying...