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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...

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.

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

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...

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.

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.

In the Daya Bay region of China, about 55 kilometers northeast of Hong Kong, a research project is underway to study ghostlike, elusive particles called neutrinos. Today, the international Daya Bay Collaboration announce...

Determining the origin of high-temperature superconductivity is probably the single most important challenge faced today by solid-state physicists. This despite 30 years of extensive research efforts. High temperature su...

Steel has already been around for roughly 3000 years and in several thousand variations today - yet it is always good for a surprise. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung in Düsseldorf have now made...

Using metallic osmium (Os) in experimentation, an international group of researchers have demonstrated that ultra-high pressures cause core electrons to interplay, which results in experimentally observed anomalies in th...

Yale University physicists are part of two international research efforts at the South Pole--the IceCube Collaboration and DM-Ice--that have announced new observations on cosmic neutrinos and the nature of dark matter.

A compact 'on-silicon-chip' laser has been developed by A*STAR researchers that boasts both excellent confinement of light for lasing and the ability to efficiently share the laser light with nearby components.

A wirelessly powered implant the size of a grain of rice can electrically stimulate the brains of mice as the rodents do what they please. The implant could help scientists better understand and treat mental health disor...

An international team of researchers, including the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente in The Netherlands and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, announced today in Sc...

We naturally shift our gait even if it saves miniscule amounts of energy - a finding that could help people with spinal injuries learn to walk again

(DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory) Today, the international Daya Bay Collaboration announces new findings on the measurements of neutrinos, paving the way forward for further neutrino research, and confirming that the ...