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Knowing the detailed shape of biomolecules such as proteins is essential for biological studies and drug discovery. Modern structural biology relies on techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), X-ray crystallo...

More people in New York City are sick with Legionnaires' disease in what appears to be a new cluster of cases, health officials say.

If you had to design a bird or dolphin drone from scratch, how would you build the wings?

A new species of land snail in China is so tiny that 10 could fit through the eye of a needle, researchers report.

Japanese paper art has inspired scientists to design a new thin solar cell that tracks the sun using cuts and bending instead of large, clunky motors and gears.

Storm surges as high as those that caused devastation during hurricane Sandy may now be over 20 times more common than before humans changed climate

Humanity is moving from evolution by natural selection (Darwinism) to evolution by intelligent direction. For most of human history, our average age was only about 26 years old. We would...

Meet Maria Bualat a robotics engineer at NASA Ames Research Center.

A new way to support 3D-printed structures as they're being made is opening the door to creating delicate biological structures and eventually organs

Scientists say they've found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Salty brines found in dark streaks that show up and disappear throughout the Martian year are evidence that briny water is flowing on the Red Planet, scient...

The enigmatic dark streaks called recurring slope lineae (RSL) that appear seasonally on steep, relatively warm Martian slopes are probably caused by salty liquid water, researchers said.

A geological survey of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has revealed its two halves have layers that don't line up, meaning they came together at a crawl

The unusual channels ASTRONOMERS know that Mars was once wet. There is plenty of evidence for that, from dried-up river valleys to the presence of chemicals that need water to form. Modern Mars, though, is a freezing des...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds strongest evidence yet that there is liquid water on the surface of the Red Planet, so there might also be life

A microsnail discovered in southern China may have evolved its lack of size to avoid being eaten or to cut its reliance on scarce resources

Nitrogen oxide pollution has been inexplicably high for years in Germany, France and other European states

On Sunday evening, a moon that appeared abnormally large and bright in Earth's skies dove into the planet's shadow, turning a gorgeous reddish-gold in the process. It was the first supermoon total lunar eclipse since 198...

Running isn't a series of jumps but a series of rotations - and making use of this could let athletes fall their way to new world records

Evidence is mounting that NOx emissions don't just make us ill by boosting the production of ozone and tiny particles - they directly damage our health too

The crackling, raging wildfires that are roasting the Western states could have some odd effects beyond destroying homes and wiping out towering trees.

(Phys.org)--The performance of all of today's electronic devices depends on the quality of the semiconductor materials they're made of. Two of the most important factors that affect a semiconductor's properties are its b...

Angelina Jolie Pitt's breast surgery increased women's awareness of reconstructive breast surgery options, according to a new study from Austria.