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All overweight and obese adults in the U.S. should get routine tests to check their blood sugar levels, new recommendations say.

People who believe in ghosts are more afraid of the world than are people who shun belief in the supernatural.

Nearly a million years ago, a cave hyena could have taken down a 5-year-old mastodon weighing more than a ton. And in packs, the predators may have been equipped to demolish a 9-year-old mastodon weighing a hefty 2 tons.

If you think you can't break a bone doing yoga, think again.

Two Native American twins who died 11,500 years ago weren't twins at all; they had different mothers, new research suggests.

Earth has a poop problem. The extinction of whales and other megafauna has resulted in a shortage of mega-manure, which is essential for spreading nutrients around the globe at sea and on land.

The only refuge for Africa's rapidly declining lions is in the continent's southern nations, where heavy-handed management has conserved them

Musicians are better than the rest of us at synchronising their brains to slow music. The finding suggests music training could help people with dyslexia

A team of physicists led by Caltech's David Hsieh has discovered an unusual form of matter--not a conventional metal, insulator, or magnet, for example, but something entirely different. This phase, characterized by an u...

A huge chunk of rock and ice slid down Canada's Mount Steele at a dizzying speed, and a new satellite image reveals the stunning aftermath.

From the real Count Dracula to Joan of Arc's trusted serial-killer companion, here are some of the scariest people in history.

An ultrapure material taken to pressures greater than that in the depths of the ocean and chilled to temperatures colder than outer space has revealed an unexpected phase transition that crosses two different phase categ...

An ultrapure material taken to pressures greater than that in the depths of the ocean and chilled to temperatures colder than outer space has revealed an unexpected phase transition that crosses two different phase categ...

An international team of scientists have observed how a mysterious quantum phenomenon in organic molecules takes place in real time, which could aid in the development of highly efficient solar cells.

Assumptions about the green colour of microscopic organisms have led to overestimates about their decline as oceans warm

Densely populated regions around the Gulf in the Middle East could get so hot that the temperatures may be fatal to people living in or visiting the area

We can still avoid 2°C of global warming even if nations can't agree on a fair way to share the burden of emission cuts - someone just has to take the lead

Intense depletion of the ozone layer above Antarctica happens each year. In October 2015 it was more than 1.5 million square miles larger (2.5Mkm2) than in 2014.

The world of quantum mechanics is weird. Objects that are far apart can influence each other in what Albert Einstein called "spooky action at a distance", and cats can potentially be dead and alive at the same time. For ...

Is it really possible to be scared to death?

A little more than 200 million years ago, a four-fanged pterosaur flew over the vast desert of Triassic Utah snagging other reptiles with its toothy mouth, until it met its untimely end on the banks of a dried-up oasis, ...

Physicists from Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin have found a new recipe for using intense lasers to create positrons--the antiparticle of electrons--in record numbers and density.