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The solar power industry continued its hiring spree in 2015, growing 12 times faster than overall U.S. employment.

Older adults who don't sleep as well may be at increased risk for changes in their brain, a new study finds.

Researchers have revealed for the first time the key role played by one of the RNA letters, hmC or hydroxymethylation. Their discovery will help us better understand such diseases as cancer.

The slashed and punctured bones of a woolly mammoth suggest that humans lived in the far northern reaches of Siberia earlier than scientists had previously thought, a new study finds.

Map showing the location of the fossil mammoth scientists say was killed by hunters.

A new product called "Fontus", that attaches to a bicycle, pulls moisture out of the air while a bike is moving. It condenses and drips water into a bottle.

Meet Alishia Ballard. She's a structural engineer.

In photos: a microscopic worm can develop one of five specialized mouths best suited to its diet.

Depending on a microscopic worm's environment and diet, it can develop one of five specialized mouths best suited to its living situation.

A new concept has been developed for rapid, accurate gene sequencing by pulling a DNA molecule through a tiny, chemically activated hole in graphene -- an ultrathin sheet of carbon atoms -- and detecting changes in elect...

Better coordination between hospitals and post-acute care facilities could reduce patient readmission to hospitals and mortality rates, according to a new study of risk factors. In a review of more than 3,200 hospitaliza...

A key component of the pathogenesis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), a devastating and sometimes fatal lung disease that affects premature infants, has been uncovered by researchers.

The unusual strategy means worms of the same species in the same environment can look - and behave - very differently to one another

By imitating the orbits of satellites, researchers have imagined a choreographic crystal whose symmetry is based on periodic motions, not fixed positions

Some 130 million years ago, a monster of a reptile, a 30-foot-long crocodile ancestor, once navigated the lagoons of the Tataouine region of southern Tunisia, the area where Star Wars' Tatooine was filmed.

Here's a look at the 130-million-year-old remains of a monster-size crocodile ancestor and excavation at the site where Star Wars' Tatooine was filmed.

NASA is about to get up close and personal with Earth's corals: The space agency will use airplanes and water instruments to survey these delicate structures and capture the most detailed views ever of the planet's coral...

A mom pushes a stroller down the sidewalk while Skyping. A family of four sits at the dinner table plugged into their cell phones with the TV blaring in the...

To investigate the influence of gravity on the propagation of light, researchers usually have to examine astronomical length scales and huge masses. However, physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnb...

One person has been declared brain-dead, and four others are in critical condition after a trial of a drug at a hospital in Rennes, France, went wrong

Record-breaking flows caused rivers to break their banks and landslides compounded subsequent flooding. Climate change, not El Niño, was behind the rainfall

Scientists uncover pathway in highly suspect disease gene also tied to schizophrenia and bipolar disease.