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Scientists have pieced together how ankylosaurs' weaponized tail clubs evolved, finding that the hammer's "handle" came first.

Homophobia is linked with dysfunctional psychological traits and poor coping skills in a new study of Italian students.

(Stowers Institute for Medical Research) A team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder has devised a novel optical technique -- a combination of structured i...

Researchers address the challenges of effective universal health coverage in low- and middle-income countries, focusing on solving one of the most pressing issues: the care of chronic illnesses. Their suggestions, aimed ...

Periodontitis is a risk factor for heart disease. Now a team of researchers has shown that a periodontal pathogen causes changes in gene expression that boost inflammation and atherosclerosis in aortic smooth muscle cell...

Engineers have developed a breakthrough device that can significantly reduce the cost of sophisticated lab tests for medical disorders and diseases, such as HIV, Lyme disease and syphilis. The new device uses miniaturize...

Resveratrol, found in red wine and dark chocolate, may stabilise Alzheimer's disease - but at doses equivalent to 1000 bottles a day

It's a bit like a Marvel superhero comic or a 70s sci-fi TV show--only it actually just happened. After having his sternum and several ribs surgically removed, a Spanish cancer...

Bad news for apiphobes: Killer bees are on the move in the United States, but that may be helpful to the besieged European bee.

A project to build a wearable robotic device could help millions of visually impaired people.

Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) are thought to be the future for treating and preventing HIV infections. A bNAb recently characterized by researchers can neutralize the virus in several different states -- increa...

Snakebites in Costa Rica spike during El Niño and La Niña as venomous snakes respond to changes in the weather and climate.

Genetic mutations called 'escape variants' in the deadly Ebola virus appear to block the ability of antibody-based treatments to ward off infection, according scientists. Their findings have implications for the continue...

A person's response to anticancer drug treatments is strongly related to their genetic ancestry, new research concludes. Notable associations were found for the drug temozolomide, which is used to treat brain tumors. Oth...

Burning all the fossil fuels on Earth would trigger enough global warming to completely melt the Antarctic ice sheet, raising sea levels by 200 feet (60 meters), and drowning major cities that are home to more than a bil...

A team of researchers has devised a novel optical technique -- a combination of structured illumination microscopy (SIM) and single-particle averaging (SPA) -- to resolve individual components of SPB duplication in livin...

In 1956, the French adventurer and SCUBA inventor Jacques Cousteau published a book called The Silent World about Earth's oceans. Cousteau's book is widely credited with giving rise to a new awareness of the seas' beauty...

Doctors originally guessed, based on an x-ray, that the item in the 15-month-old girl's chest was a hairpin.

An algorithm based on speech recognition software has dug up hundreds of tremors on the moon missed by earlier searches - and could help find quakes on Mars

The human body could be used as rapid, scalable vaccine factories, DARPA researchers said at a new technology forum.

It's another shot in the black hole wars - a Nobel laureate has a counterpoint to Stephen Hawking's new solution to the black hole information paradox

The pressure to be available 24/7 on social media has negative effects on teens' mental health, a new study finds.