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Geological eras since the origin of the Earth.

The subglacial lake is second in size only to Lake Vostok, but much nearer to research stations, making it easier to hunt there for new life forms

Photoswitchable agents might reduce side effects of a chemotherapy. So far, photodynamic therapies have been dependent on oxygen in the tissue. But hardly any oxygen exists in malignant, rapidly growing tumors. A group o...

A brain hemorrhage is bleeding in or around the brain. Brain hemorrhages occur when an artery in the brain bursts.

Dining out or eating canned foods might not actually be so bad for your waistline, a new study from Spain suggests.

Night-sky enthusiasts are looking to the heavens for dancing lights in the name of science or Aurorasaurus, as the project is called. The online community is a hub for citizen-scientists to gather and share aurora data v...

Here's why a married woman suddenly suspected her husband was cheating.

Medical researchers have developed a novel cell-penetrating peptide (CPP) technology capable of carrying other molecular "cargos" directly into living cells, coupling with them and then successfully uncoupling after deli...

A review of studies of possible linkages between type 2 diabetes and hearing impairment concludes there is compelling evidence that diabetes can damage the auditory system, and that clinicians should include hearing test...

Researchers have discovered how a gene in the brain's dopamine system can play an important role in prolonging lifespan: it must be coupled with a healthy environment that includes exercise.

If you want to know why your water tastes funny -- whether it tastes like pencil shavings, bleach, metal, dirt, fish, mold, medicine, gasoline, salt, rotten eggs or wet dog -- we've got answers.

Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched by any known gas, liquid or solid states.

The most aggressive form of pancreatic cancer -- often described as one of the hardest malignancies to diagnose and treat -- thrives in the presence of neighboring tumor cells undergoing a particular form of 'orchestrate...

Researchers report that zinc deficiency may contribute to chronic inflammation among HIV-positive individuals. Theirs is believed to be the first investigation to explore the association between serum zinc levels and inf...

A smartphone application that projects a magnified smartphone screen to Google Glass has been developed, which allows users to navigate using head movements to view a corresponding portion of the magnified screen. They h...

Studying a new type of pinhead-size, lab-grown brain made with technology first suggested by three high school students, researchers have confirmed a key way in which Zika virus causes microcephaly and other damage in fe...

Ice-nucleating bacteria help form ice at higher temperatures by creating pockets of high- and low-density water, new research explains.

Steam power, once a major force behind the Industrial Revolution, could be coming back into fashion, after Chinese researchers designed the world's "darkest metal" that converts sunlight to steam at roughly 90 percent ef...

"For most of human history we have searched for our place in the cosmos. Who are we? What are we? We find that we inhabit an insignificant planet of a hum-drum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner o...

While infrared waves are available in short, mid, and long lengths, most detection devices are unable to harness all three at the same time.

Eons, eras, periods and epochs.

If shooting arrows from a crossbow into cubes of ballistics gelatin doesn't sound like biological science to you, you've got a lot to learn from University of Illinois animal biology professor Philip Anderson, who did ju...