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"We have produced atomic metallic hydrogen in the laboratory at high pressure and low temperature," say Harvard scientists Isaac Silvera and Ranga Dias in a new article that appears today in the AAAS journal Science. Thi...

In order to drive a car, you need a good balance between accelerator and brake. The same applies to a part of the brain -- the striatum - that controls our movements. Research has led to new findings on the interaction b...

In a bold and very challenging move, thoracic surgeons removed severely infected lungs from a dying mom, keeping her alive without them for six days, so that she could recover enough to receive a life-saving lung transpl...

Seventy-eight percent of employees at Houston hospitals are overweight or obese, according to a study.

Biologists have identified a brain hormone that appears to trigger fat burning in the gut. Their findings in animal models could have implications for future pharmaceutical development.

The exit would deal a heavy blow to multibillion-dollar nuclear fusion experiments --

The exit would deal a heavy blow to multibillion-dollar nuclear-fusion experiments --

Researchers have been able to use label-free spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM) and computer processing in order to image microtubules in an assay. The hollow tubular structures serve as the backbone of cells a...

According to a new national survey on Americans' opinions on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 12 percent of Americans want the ACA kept in its curre...

Electrical engineers at Duke University have created the world's first electromagnetic metamaterial made without any metal. The device's ability to absorb electromagnetic energy without heating up has direct applications...

Up to 90 per cent of brown howler monkeys in one area may have died already and fear of them spreading yellow fever to humans has led to reprisal attacks

Using a "space-proof" camera mounted on the chest of his spacesuit, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet captured video of a January 13, 2017 spacewalk. Pesquet and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough completed a power upgrade for th...

Sold as an eco-friendly way to heat our homes, wood-burning stoves might actually be a disaster for their owners' health and for the climate

Scientists equipped with 3D laser scanners have revealed the secrets of a hidden "priest hole" in the tower of an English Tudor mansion linked to the Catholic Gunpowder Plot of 1605.

The Trump administration seems to want to rein scientists in, just as Canada did until recently - and it's there we should look for lessons in fighting back

A wall proposed by President Donald Trump to block immigrants from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border may also harm the wildlife whose homes straddle both countries, biologists told Live Science.

Growing organs in the lab is an enduring sci-fi trope, but as stem cell technology brings it ever closer to reality, scientists are beginning to contemplate the ethics governing disembodied human tissue. So-called organo...

The cane toad, which overran Australia when introduced there, and Panama's iconic, endangered golden frog both belong to the family Bufonidae. Researchers combed through many research papers to compile all of the known c...

Genome editing, including CRISPR/Cas9, is a new and notable technology that enables geneticists and researchers to edit parts of the human genome. The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics recognizes that gen...

Where a shift in cultural behaviors and beliefs typically takes three generations, new research has found that among African immigrant mothers, cultural views regarding sex are rarely passed down to their children, indic...

For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to discover the exact interventions needed to obtain a specific, previously unachievable result in vivo, providing new insight into the biophysics of cancer and r...

Women over 50 who have been treated for ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a precursor of breast cancer, are more likely to be alive ten years later than women in the general population, according to new research. Research...