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Two years after the right to be forgotten took root in Europe, the world is deeply split over the future of digital deletion, says Meg Leta Jones

Stuffed up? Here's why you have so much snot.

The future of movies and manufacturing may be in 3-D, but electronics and photonics are going 2-D; specifically, two-dimensional semiconducting materials.

Taxanes are a group of drugs commonly used to treat cancers of the breast, lung, ovary, or prostate, but its use can be limited by significant side effects. Researchers report prostate cancer patients who have a variatio...

Tools and butchered mastodon bones challenge the idea that giant mammals went extinct soon after people first settled in the Americas

Holograms are a ubiquitous part of our lives. They are in our wallets--protecting credit cards, cash and driver's licenses from fraud--in grocery store scanners and biomedical devices.

Using ultrashort laser pulses an international team at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has managed to manipulate the positions of atoms in hydrocarbon molecu...

In a study of more than 300 soldiers who had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, a majority reported symptoms consistent with 'chronic multisymptom illness' -- a diagnosis that up till now has been associated mainly with Gu...

For decades, scientists have fiercely debated whether rapid eye movement sleep -- the phase where dreams appear -- is directly involved in memory formation. Now, a study provides evidence that REM sleep does, indeed, pla...

A huge initiative aims to get to the bottom of the role bacteria and other microbes play in your body and on our planet, hoping to improve the health of all

Taking a popular painkiller may be linked to decreased ability to empathize with others' suffering, a new study suggests.

What are the odds that life exists elsewhere in the universe? A scientist and a historian talked recently about updating that estimation, at a major physics meeting.

When tiny microbes jam up like fans exiting a baseball stadium, they can do some real damage.

DeepMind, Google's AI company, wants to use data on millions of patients to save lives - but has not obtained ethical approval

We have received more information on this story from DeepMind, Google's AI company, and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, and are considering their response

A New Scientist investigation raises questions about the basis under which an NHS Trust is sharing patient data with Google's AI firm

We now think one star swallowing another causes rare, bright red novae, but George Darwin had worked out the key details in the 19th century

That a desert nation such as the United Arab Emirates should even think about building a mountain to make it rain is a sign of desperate times, says Jamais Cascio

An international study confirms that Ebola virus persists in the semen of survivors of the epidemic in Guinea, for up to 9 months after their recovery. These results recall the importance of monitoring survivors in order...

A novel measure for assessing the body's response to surgery may allow for better anesthesia management in the O.R., less pain when regaining consciousness from anesthesia and better postoperative outcomes.

A new report assesses how the nation fared against the ambitious challenge goal set by the American Cancer Society to reduce the cancer death rates by 50 percent over 25 years ending in 2015.

Scientists have created bioengineered blood vessels for kidney-disease patients on dialysis. The human-made vessels appeared to be both safe and more durable than commonly used synthetic versions, said the investigators.