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Dozens of particles from halfway across the universe have landed in the IceCube experiment at the South Pole. These messengers could help answer some long-standing cosmic conundrums --

An ancestor of the giraffe split into two evolutionary branches, one leading to the okapi with its short neck and the other branch leading to the giraffes.

IT IS easy, in the arrogance of scientific advance, to forget that less than a century and a half ago most medicines were herbal remedies. To this day, some of the best-known, including aspirin, morphine and digitalis, a...

For some patients, bariatric surgery may increase the risk of harmful behaviors.

Earth's inner core formed between 1 billion and 1.5 billion years ago, when it powered the huge rise in Earth's magnetic field, new research suggests.

Scientists have figured out why some species have more females than males and others have more males than females. Turns out, sex chromosomes are the culprits.

The planet faces a booming population, but a stark future can be avoided if nations push for sustainable development.

A peptide that over-excites neurons controlling facial feeling is to blame for migraines - so drugs that constrict blood vessels won't work

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Recently, I attended the "Silicon Valley reinvents the wheel" conference by the Western Automotive Journalists which had a variety of talks and demonstrations of new car technology. Now that robocars have...

A Purdue University researcher has solved a 140-year-old enigma in fluid mechanics: Why does a simple formula describe the seemingly complex physics for the behavior of elliptical particles moving through fluid?

Evidence of a sudden collapse of Fogo volcano 73,000 years ago and a massive tsunami raises concern that such freak events are more frequent than thought

Tiny green-blooded vocalists croon among the forest vegetation on humid monsoon nights, composing a new melody every time they sing

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Some 66 million years ago, the seismic energy from the Chicxulub impact may have set off dramatic lava flows from the Deccan traps, dooming the dinosaurs

"Off-the-shelf" insulin-producing cells could be a simpler and potentially safer way to treat type 1 diabetes than using stem cells

A disciplinary hearing has begun against a pathologist whose research challenges child-abuse assumptions. She is the second doctor to be accused in five years

A group of cyclists in a peloton behave like a collective organism, giving an accidental benefit to even the slowest riders - much like schooling fish

Engineered phage viruses show promise as targeted assassins - genetic manipulation might make it easier for them to gain regulatory approval

When a country such as Iran is wary of nuclear inspections, an experimental detector could help ensure that its reactors are not making plutonium for weapon

Researchers building soft robots out of flexible plastic and powered by air have now created a pumping artificial heart

An algorithm used to analyse earthquakes has been adapted to pick up the natural tremors in the brain. The technique could help spot tumours and dementia