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Including 31,000 neurons and their 37 million synapses, a digital recreation of a chunk of rat brain is already giving clues as to how the real thing works

What does actor Paul Giamatti know about cyborgs? A surprising amount, it turns out, and he's ready to share it on "Breakthrough," a new National Geographic Channel series that dives into groundbreaking research.

Inspired by a naturally occurring material found in marine mussels, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a new flame retardant to replace commercial additives that are often toxic and can accumul...

Wearing a bicycle helmet may seem like a no-brainer, but preteens and teens tend not to wear them, even though helmets dramatically decrease the odds of a traumatic brain injury, a new study finds.

Today, agriculture is more efficient than ever, but it's also more dependent on environmental, technological, and social issues like never before. Climate change, drought and other disasters, shifting energy landscapes, ...

Comparing DNA extracted from an ancient Ethiopian skeleton with modern examples shows some of our ancestors migrated back to Africa from Eurasia 3000 years ago

NASA's Curiosity rover is compiling evidence of enduring bodies of water on the Martian surface, but this conflicts with what we know about the Red Planet's past climate

About 9 million U.S. children are susceptible to measles, either because they haven't received the vaccine against the viral disease or because they aren't up to date with their shots.

Some people need them to see, others just to read, but a new pair of high-tech glasses could save your life. "This is what we call cancer glasses," said Suman Mondal, a graduate student of biomedical engineering at Washi...

A Japanese mathematician claims to have solved one of the most important problems in his field. The trouble is, hardly anyone can work out whether he's right --

The latest images from the New Horizons probe uncover surprising details about the dwarf planet's colours - and how the sky and the ground are connected

Corals are dying across the planet. The culprit? Ever-increasing temperatures are stressing out corals' colorful partners called zooxanthellae. The result? Bleached-white corals.

Our universe is actually really simple, it's just our cosmological theories that are getting needlessly complex, argues one of the world's leading theoretical physicists.

The test, based on epigenetic tags on the genome, claims 67 per cent accuracy, but concerns over eugenics and misuse have led lead researcher to quit his job

Most robotic parts used today are rigid, have a limited range of motion and don't really look lifelike. Inspired by both nature and biology, a scientist from Florida Atlantic University has designed a novel robotic finge...

Ebola survivor Dr. Ian Crozier says he continues to experience long-term effects from the disease, including hearing loss and seizures.

Duplications of the p53 gene makes elephant cells more likely to die in response to DNA damage, rather than turn cancerous

Fishing line, paper clips, glass marble, glue - no, not the makings of a MacGyver episode but a new experiment that lets students precisely measure the effects of global warming on oceans.

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IT SOUNDS like an easy question for any half-competent scientist to answer. Do dark-skinned footballers get given red cards more often than light-skinned ones? But, as Raphael Silberzahn of IESE, a Spanish business schoo...

THERE is something of the 19th century about the science of dysmorphology. The idea that medical conditions, such as Down's or Angelman's syndromes, whose main consequences are neurological and behavioural, imprint thems...

Guaranteed dinoflagellate-free FILTER-FEEDING bivalve molluscs, such as mussels, oysters, scallops and clams, are a useful and tasty source of protein. They can, though, also be harbingers of illness. A filter-feeder liv...