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Systemic mastocytosis is a rare, incurable disease that affects approximately one in every 10,000 people. It is a haematological tumor disease, similar to leukemia, in which the bone marrow and other organs, such as the ...

Greek ruins turn out to conceal an ancient urban area.

A new leaf-mimicking spider species resembles the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter books.

DNA replication begins when the double helix, caught in a vice of proteins, melts, scientists have discovered.

Renowned physicist Edward Witten recently suggested that consciousness might forever remain a mystery. But his words haven't discouraged other physicists from trying to unravel it.

Until recently, if scientists wanted to study blood cells, algae, or bacteria under the microscope, they had to mount these cells on a substrate such as a glass slide. Physicists at Bielefeld and Frankfurt Universities h...

Teen use of many illegal and legal drugs -- including ecstasy, cocaine, alcohol and tobacco -- is now at record lows.

Syrian refugees have fled across the border into Turkey, but they may face a new risk from earthquakes, research suggests.

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) Lithium-ion batteries running at higher voltages promise higher performance for high-energy applications such as electric cars and power storage systems. But thus far it has not bee...

Scientists from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Russia) have clarified how changing the nanostructure of materials for future energy fusion reactors influences their plasticity, heat resistance and other ...

There's an old saying that's popular in science departments:If it moves, it's biology.If it smells, it's chemistry.If it doesn't work, it's physics.While not exactly right, the saying does have some truth. After all, if ...

Playing "Pokémon Go" really does get people to walk more, but the effects appear to be short-lived, a new study suggests.

Injecting calcite particles into the stratosphere could repair the ozone hole and slow climate change, but experts say carbon cuts and new tech are needed instead.

Physicists have achieved record temperature reductions of more than 40 °C using radiative cooling, which beams heat through the atmosphere

Researchers show the potential of their digital health platform to help treat acute lymphoblastic leukemia by being able to personalize drug dosages and combinations.

A huge slab discovered offshore in Israel has revealed the name of the ancient prefect who ruled Judea just before the Bar Kokhba revolt.

The ATLAS collaboration today reports the first measurement of the W boson mass using Large Hadron Collider (LHC) proton-proton collision data at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV.

Some fear that robots and AI will steal our jobs. They probably will (in the near-term, at least half of them). If that happens, what will we do for a living? How will we earn money? In this post I'll be discussing one o...

For many patients with chronic pain, any light touch - even just their clothes touching their skin - can be agony. Scientists have found a possible new avenue for producing painkillers that specifically treat this kind o...

Rhabdoid tumors are among the most recalcitrant childhood cancers, and scientists have long sought ways to understand what drives their resilience and makes them impervious to treatment. Now researchers have uncovered a ...

President-elect Trump has tapped former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to run the U.S. Department of Energy.

As scientists race to create a vaccine for the Zika virus, new research suggests almost half of Americans wouldn't be interested in getting the shot even if public health officials recommended it for them.