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Those living in more advantaged neighborhoods are less likely to have a stroke than are their counterparts who live in less advantaged neighborhoods, according to a new study.

Recent surveys off the US coast have discovered vents spewing a potent greenhouse gas and curiously purple creatures deep below the sea's surface

THAT space flight is as much show business as science was confirmed on the evening of October 19th, when members of the ExoMars team put on the bravest of faces for a broadcast from their mission control in Darmstadt, Ge...

A curious reader wrote in today with an odd and ominous inquiry--how much would it cost to power the laser of the Death Star? We're by no means the first ones to turn an analytical eye to everyone's favorite space opera,...

Specific brain regions, including those involved in awareness of self and tendency to ruminate, show altered activity in patients with insomnia when compared to good sleepers, according to a new study.

A non-human sialic acid sugar molecule common in red meat that increases the risk of tumor formation in humans is also prevalent in pig organs, with concentrations increasing as the organs are cooked, a study has found.

Using a recently developed technology for analyzing DNA, scientists have found dozens of genes and two major biological pathways that are likely involved in the development of the disorder but had not been uncovered in p...

Maintaining the ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, allows cells to continuously divide and achieve immortality. In a new study, researchers have developed a first-of-its- kind system to observe repair to broken DNA i...

"I have a fast metabolism; I can eat and eat and stay skinny." Most of us have heard someone say this. But what is metabolism, and can we make ours run a bit faster? A new article helps break down what you should know ab...

The Schiaparelli lander’s failure to phone home has scientists fearing the worst --

Two major fault lines in the San Francisco Bay Area are linked, and could rupture together releasing five times more energy than one of them alone

Scents and odours seem to be implicated in the first experiments that seem to show mice can sensitise other mice to pain

Newly detected wavy patterns in two of the planet's rings suggest they are being warped by two small, unseen satellites

Your life might feel pricelsss to you and your loved ones, but society needs to know its value

As sea levels rise, islands can lose ground not only on their coasts, but also inland as lakes spring up - and cause drinking water to evaporate

Culls are routinely carried out around the world in the name of upholding biodiversity and animal welfare. Are they ethical and do they work, asks Alice Klein

A new fossil discovery has shown that birds developed the unique vocal organ that enables them to sing more than 66 million years ago when dinosaurs were around

A project is kicking off in the Sierra Nevada mountains to monitor moisture levels to help control the state's water supplies and hydro power

A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer is often a death sentence because chemotherapy and radiation have little impact on the disease. In the U.S. this year, some 53,000 new cases will be diagnosed, and 42,000 patients will di...

A newly study demonstrates fetal death and brain damage in early chick embryos similar to microcephaly--a rare birth defect linked to the Zika virus.

Capuchins make stone flakes that could be mistaken for hominin tools, but they do so by accident in search of mineral dust they lick, perhaps as a medication

Digging through old observations of galaxies, astronomers have discovered X-ray flares from objects they can't yet identify