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The Al-Qaida-held city of Mukalla has been battered by the cyclone since it made landfall in a country currently in the midst of civil war

AN ARGUMENT often advanced for the encouragement of religion is that, to paraphrase St Matthew's report of Jesus's words, it leads people to love their neighbours as themselves. That would be a powerful point were it tru...

Because Americans of African descent are at a higher risk for developing GI cancers than others, a group of researchers is teaming up to launch a program to assess GI cancer biology in patients.

A four-legged robot with serious athletic endurance recently walked its way right into the history books.

Parts produced by some commercial 3-D printers are toxic to certain fish embryos, new research shows. These results have raised questions about how to dispose of parts and waste materials from 3-D printers.

Physicists are literally applying rocket science to the field of medical diagnostics. With a few key changes, the researchers used a noninvasive ultrasonic technique originally developed to detect microscopic flaws in so...

Energy drinks have grown in popularity for many Americans, but there is growing concern about the health risks of consuming them in large quantities. Because men are the main consumers of energy drinks, a research team s...

Utah Valley University physicists are literally applying rocket science to the field of medical diagnostics. With a few key changes, the researchers used a noninvasive ultrasonic technique originally developed to detect ...

New research finds that one night of sleep deprivation and six months on a high-fat diet could both impair insulin sensitivity to a similar degree, demonstrating the importance of a good night's sleep on health. This stu...

Protein cytokeratin 5 (CK5), known to be a marker of poor prognosis in breast cancer, also marks ovarian cancers likely to be resistant to the common chemotherapy cisplatin, new research confirms.

The size of returning Atlantic salmon is largely dependent on the number of years that the salmon remains at sea before returning to spawn in the river. The genetic basis of this trait has not been previously known, maki...

Materials that actively repel water and ice very strongly are sought after by the aviation industry and for many other technical applications. ETH researchers have now found out how to specifically design the rigid surfa...

The Not Alone Transition Companion program has been launched in an American hospital to provide critically ill or dying patients with a companion when family members or friends are not available.

Peering at the debris from particle collisions that recreate the conditions of the very early universe, scientists have for the first time measured the force of interaction between pairs of antiprotons. Like the force th...

Nice outfit, dear HOW the peacock got his tail is one of natural history's "Just So" stories that biologists like to think they have cracked. His tail is for showing off to the ladies just how fit he and his genes are. A...

The Red Planet's gravity is slowly shredding its largest moon, which is already a rubble pile with a thin shell of dust

Lacking an immune system means it's a struggle to recognise certain smells - if you're a mouse. And it could be to stop you sniffing out danger

Coal-free, low-emission, high growth. That could be the future of the currently resource-dependent Australia, as long as politicians take action

Scientist show that widespread activity occurs in the brain even during unconscious processing - which shouldn't happen if our theories of consciousness are correct

The fate of the world's heaviest parrot depends on a berry from an unreliable tree. Now conservationists have finally come up a replacement

Flight recorder of the plane that crashed in Egypt killing 224 people has yet to be analysed, but a tracking website may have captured its last moments

Move over Columbo. By studying courtroom videos, a computer has learned to detect the facial expressions of liars so well it can beat the best interrogators