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Almost 900 climate change cases have now been filed in 24 countries, and the Paris climate agreement could provide a further boost to litigation efforts

Harvard researchers aim to improve robotic therapy for those learning to walk again.

Summer is here, and that means that "Dr. Beach" has again released his top 10 list of public beaches in the United States.

The vacuum of empty space may be roiling with energy that drives the expansion of space itself, a new hypothesis proposes.

(Ruhr-University Bochum) Chemists at the Centre for Electrochemical Sciences at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed a catalyst with self-healing properties. Under the challenging conditions of water electrolysis for ...

Stroke patients who learned to use their minds to open and close a plastic brace fitted over their paralyzed hands gained some ability to control their own hands when they were not wearing the brace, according to a new s...

People in the US stand to lose sleep as the climate warms - and those in hotter countries will be harder hit

Obesity is linked with the composition of microbes in the human gut. In new research, bacterial composition in the gut, as well as accompanying metabolites are shown to undergo a profound and permanent shift, with microb...

Scientists have made another important advance in HIV vaccine design. The development was possible thanks to previous studies showing the structures of a protein on HIV's surface, called the envelope glycoprotein. The sc...

A new study of US data suggests a sleep-deprived planet by century's end. Researchers show that unusually warm nights can harm human sleep and that the poor and elderly are most affected. Rising temperatures will make sl...

Melanoma is a particularly difficult cancer to treat once it has metastasized, spreading throughout the body. Researchers are using chemistry to find the deadly, elusive malignant cells within a melanoma tumor that hold ...

When it comes to buying or borrowing goods, overall cost for society is smallest when people charge for lending

Algorithms with a taste for exploration can learn how to play video games and might be able to pick up other skills much faster than conventionally taught AIs

A new, less invasive method of conducting autopsies could one day replace the traditional procedure for diagnosing the causes of many deaths, according to a new study.

Nineteenth-century cyanotypes -- an early form of photography -- capture the delicate beauty of British algae.

A woman's heart rate appears to increase slightly when she's at the most fertile point in her menstrual cycle.

With just a can of spray paint, researchers can turn flat surfaces of any shape or size into touchpads.

The world's highest gain high power laser amplifier - by many orders of magnitude - has been developed in research led at the University of Strathclyde.

The completion of a £3.5 million research facility means that the University of Huddersfield is established as one of Europe's leading centres for the use of ion beams as a tool for the investigation of issues ranging f...

A newly identified, 130-million-year-old marine reptile was enormous, measuring the length of nearly three grand pianos lined up, but it wasn't a top marine predator, a new study finds.

One advantage humans have over robots is that we're good at quickly passing on our knowledge to each other. A new system developed at MIT now allows anyone to coach robots through simple tasks and even lets them teach ea...

Archaeologists found a 4,000-year-old henge in England that contained five human burials.