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Scientists have found yet another reason to vaccinate their children: Keeping up with immunizations may reduce the risk of childhood stroke, according to a new study.

Symmetry sits down with Lindsay Olson as she wraps up a year of creating art inspired by particle physics.     S: How did you end up at Fermilab? LO: In March 2014 I had an exhibition of my work at North Park College....

They might look like rusty old guns, but these 150-year-old cannons offer locals an important connection with their history.

You can print wild designs using a 3D printer--shapes you couldn't make any other way. But 3D printing is also still in thrall to the laws of physics. To date, 3D...

Proficiency with a musical instrument doesn't just change the structure of the brain - it also changes the way we hear music

Sleep-deprived people lose focus and get emotional even when viewing neutral images, but brain training could help keep everything under control

The figures show that before 1800, one storm every 500 years would have produced a 2.25-metre storm surge in the Battery; now, such storms occur once every 24 years

A device that monitors brain signals was hooked up to muscle-activating electrodes in the man's legs, enabling him to control his movement just by thinking about it

Crocs hybridising, grisly walrus deaths, quantum computing deal and more

Those with a long smoking habit and good health might have their genes to thank - one of many findings emerging from a vast genetic resource

The oil giant might have announced it is pulling out of drilling under the Chukchi Sea - but its ventures in Russian and Scandinavian Arctic continue

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

VW has been cheating in emissions tests to make its diesel cars appear less polluting than they really are - we look at the options the company now faces

Textile fibres and plastic have been found in the guts of fish caught off the coasts of California and Indonesia, raising concerns over food safety

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

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

Protest movements could get a tech boost. Software can now comb social media to spread an activist group's messages - even targeting the most receptive people

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

Gains made in the fight against malaria in East Africa could be set back by an invasive plant species

Bones from two human ancestors living between 1 and 3 million years ago show their hearing shifted towards frequencies useful for savannah survival and speech

Algorithms can use seismic data and structural knowledge of buildings to judge which parts of a city will be most at risk and prioritise rescue efforts

A maths problem previously tackled with the help of a computer, which produced a proof the size of Wikipedia, has now been cut down to size by a human