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Whiplash is a neck injury that is common in car crashes, but it can also be caused during other types of accidents. In the United States, over 2 million people suffer from whiplash each year.

On April 12th, 1961 Yuri Gagarin launched into space on a Vostok rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, becoming the first person ever to leave the planet. Here's the crazy thing: today's astronauts travel to space on a ne...

Carbon dioxide emissions are fueling more verdant landscapes around the globe, but the potentially temporary greening doesn't mean global warming is good.

Can mindfulness keep depression symptoms at bay?

Tooth marks on the leg bone of a hominin, an ancient human relative, suggest that the poor soul had a gristly end, a new study finds.

Why does someone need an emergency surgery?

Microbeads coated in a human egg protein work as a contraceptive in mice and could also be used to select the best sperm for IVF

As Kenya prepares to symbolically destroy a huge stockpile of poached ivory, it is time for a radical rethink of how to save elephants, says Paola Cavalieri

Our hospitals could one day be brought to their knees by antibiotic-resistant superbugs - doctors and scientists are seeing the first glimpse of such a world

Brain scans show how words linked to specific concepts are stored in themed areas, giving us a way to peek at people's thoughts

Playing video games online can be antisocial - but the Autcraft community is helping children with autism learn social skills and build relationships

A smartphone app monitors drug trial participants to ensure they take their medication correctly, and can also check that people finish courses of antibiotics

Researchers at University of Montreal have created a programmable DNA thermometer that is 20,000x smaller than a human hair. This scientific advance reported this week in the journal Nano Letters may significantly aid ou...

Robotic hands and arms that exactly mimic the precise movements of a human, instead of being controlled by a joystick, could help us work in dangerous environments

In the world of chemistry, one minus one almost always equals zero.

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds have their stars all out of order, suggesting they only recently showed up on the Milky Way's doorstep

Johnny Depp's latest most-watched (and highly critiqued) performance is just a little more personal than his typical thespian challenges. Here's why he and his wife were in such hot water in Australia.

After a 20-year reconstruction effort, a researcher and a performer of medieval music have brought "lost" songs from the Middle Ages back to life.

Twenty years after the first cloned animal, scientific progress remains messy, human, and often optimistic

Endangered species shipped to Wedge island are thriving there and seemingly engineering an ecosystem that benefits island's native species, too

Quantum mechanics, with its counter-intuitive rules for describing the behavior of tiny particles like photons and atoms, holds great promise for profound advances in the security and speed of how we communicate and comp...

Need to go under the knife, stat? You're probably having one of these procedures.