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The LISA Pathfinder spacecraft successfully fields technology for future one-billion-euro mission --

Sing up, dear THE lovey-dovey monogamy which the untutored eye may perceive in pairs of songbirds, raising their young together in nests constructed by joint endeavour, has long been exposed by zoologists as a fantasy. E...

Without a more efficient treatment, more than 200,000 people living with Chagas disease will die from heart disease in the next five years.

Want to live healthier? Here's the best science on how to do it.

The 2015 film "The Martian" inspired a team of researchers who recently described a newly discovered Australian plant species, naming it after Damon's botanist character.

In a new paper, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Oxford University describe a new, more general law for predicting the wavelength of complex wrinkle patterns, including those found on curved sur...

Everyone has a different mixture of personality traits: some are outgoing, some are tough and some are anxious. A new study suggests that brains also have different traits that affect both anatomical and cognitive factor...

A stillborn baby in Brazil showed evidence of a Zika virus infection, a new report says.

The antidepressant paroxetine modestly improves decision-making and reaction time, and suppresses inflammation in people with HIV-associated cognitive impairment, physicians report at the conclusion of a small, placebo-c...

Scientists have discovered how two enzymes play a critical role in ensuring quality control during splicing. In a new study, they found these molecules most likely apply physical tension to RNA to keep wrong sites from b...

Children with autism have no unique pattern of abnormal results on endoscopy or other tests for gastrointestinal (GI) disorders, compared to non-autistic children with GI symptoms.

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne tropical disease that can develop into the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome. There are currently no standard biomarkers or algorithms for the prognosis of t...

Scientists have discovered that a single monoclonal antibody isolated from a human Ebola virus disease survivor protected non-human primates when given as late as five days after lethal Ebola infection. The antibody can ...

New insights suggest that the source of human cells used to generate new tissues and organs may be an important consideration in personalized medicine. Medical researchers released the results of a study highlighting mol...

In January, a pregnant Brazilian woman infected with the Zika virus had a stillborn baby who had signs of severe tissue swelling as well as central nervous system defects that caused near-complete loss of brain tissue. I...

Sailing history is rife with tales of monster-sized rogue waves -- huge, towering walls of water that seemingly rise up from nothing to dwarf, then deluge, vessel and crew. Rogue waves can measure eight times higher than...

Meet some inspiring women in engineering-- right here in the Bay Area.

A gas leak near Los Angeles was the largest methane release from a single source in U.S. history.

A 2,500-year-old grave full of butchered turtle carcasses has been found at an archaeological site in Turkey.

Medical researchers found that for adults aged 50 to 79 moving more, even 10 minutes of light activity daily, predicts lower mortality rates.

A new optical technique shows how information is transmitted in the brains of mice. Using this method, they found that only a small portion of synapses -- the connections between cells that control brain activity -- may ...

The drug chloroquine has long been used to treat malaria, but it is not without side effects. To better understand how chloroquine toxicity occurs, medical researchers set out to investigate what the drug binds to in hum...