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People who lie about their health in order to qualify for medical research studies can mess up study results, and potentially make a drug appear less safe or effective than it really is, researchers say.

Idle electronics, the energy vampires in nearly every U.S. home, aren't going away -- but you can take steps to pull the plug, and save some money.

Just as in the well-known children's story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, something good happens when things are done in moderation, rather than in extremes.

Exercise is great, until it isn't -- how much is too much?

Say goodbye to summer, because today is the autumnal equinox, which marks the first day of the fall season. It's also the beginning of some not-so-fun hazardous weather.

Under limestone slabs in a cave in Brazil, scientists made a ghoulish new discovery: a decapitated skull covered by amputated hands. The finding may be the oldest known case of ritual beheading in the new world.

The 9,000-year-old remains of a human who was decapitated have been discovered in a rock shelter of Lapa do Santo in Brazil. The odd arrangement of the limbs, with severed hands covering the skull, suggest this was a rit...

How does religion affect people's mental health? It turns out it can be a double-edged sword.

A 9000-year-old decapitated head discovered in South America is twice as old as previous finds, and suggests veneration of the dead by early hunter-gatherers

If you thought the tech coming from Silicon Valley was cool, check out it's art.

Public art has a unique twist in the heart of Silicon Valley.

A novel, accelerator-driven method could produce nuclides for targeted alpha therapy of cancer in practically unlimited amounts, overcoming current obstacles for its wider use due to a limited production of alpha-emitter...

It's easy to contemplate the wave nature of light in common experience. White light passing through a prism spreads out into constituent colors; it diffracts from atmospheric moisture into a rainbow; light passing across...

The revamped Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has taken its first science data - a step towards finding ripples in space-time

Fast, efficient, brain-like computers may be a step closer now that a Darwinian technique has coaxed a heap of nanoparticles to act as logic gates

Observers are less able to distinguish the truth from a falsehood when an interviewee has a full bladder

The WHO has traditionally collected information on death, disease and disability - now it wants to measure our well-being too

How do you get digital content in places without a decent internet infrastructure? The solar-powered LibraryBox lets you parcel up the web and take it anywhere

Some claim that North America's famed monarch butterfly is a natural genetically modified organism owing to the transfer of wasp genes by tamed viruses

Seismic waves vibrating at the right frequency can shake up distant tectonic faults, even if the waves are very weak, and set off secondary quakes

At a summit in New York this week, world leaders are expected to approve a set of goals and targets linked to sustainable and equitable development

A bizarre signal from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler telescope showed up in a citizen science project called Planet Hunters, and may be caused by dust from a comet storm