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The Large Hadron Collider has the potential to solve some of the universe's deepest mysteries, including what is dark matter and dark energy and how did the universe come to be.

It's 1998 in Silicon Valley, and PayPal is born. Many argue this was the moment that launched fintech as we know it. Today, fintech is comprised of roughly 15,000 startups globally, all focused on either enabling or disr...

Mosses and liverworts have been found growing in hot geothermal fields in the highly active Taupo Volcanic Zone in New Zealand

A unique immune cell type has been discovered, which may lead to a future treatment for Alzheimer's disease, say investigators.

A new, novel approach to monitor functional protein complexes has now been created by scientists.

To get maximum propulsion, should a boat's team of rowers set their strokes to the same rhythm? Or should the rowers stagger the dropping and pulling of the oars through the water? Athletes and scientists have looked at ...

The pathogen, Vibrio cholerae can colonize the surfaces, as well as the intestines of soft shelled turtles. This finding is strong evidence that soft shelled turtles in China, where they are grown for human consumption, ...

Radiation therapy (RT) using high-energy particles is a common and critical component in successfully treating patients with brain tumors but it is also associated with significant adverse effects. In a new study, resear...

US law enforcement officials have been warned of the dangers of encountering fentanyl, following the collapse of a police officer who brushed some off his shirt

As the pace of drug approvals accelerates and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) faces potential budget cuts, a new research design offers a new way to successfully assess safety of newly approved drugs, as well a...

There are differing risks for binge drinking based on race, income and age, say researchers. African-Americans are generally at low risk for binge drinking, but that risk increases disproportionately with age among Afric...

Low-income Hispanics with Type 2 diabetes who received health-related text messages every day for six months saw improvements in their blood sugar levels that equaled those resulting from some glucose-lowering medication...

In an expanded, three-year clinical trial of 86 patients with colorectal and 11 other kinds of cancer that have so-called 'mismatch repair' genetic defects, scientists have found that half of the patients respond to an i...

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil dives into the exciting and quick-moving field of biotechnolo...

Products aimed at regrowing hair cost more when they are marketed to women than when they are marketed to men, a new study finds.

Democratic Unionist Party politicians have voiced controversial views on climate change, HIV and creationism. Here's what they've said on some key issues

The body of a tiny chick in a piece of Burmese amber from the Cretaceous period was preserved in incredible detail.

Chronic lower-back pain is one of the most common complaints, but no single therapy has been proven to work.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have developed numerical "tweezers" that can pin a nucleus in place, enabling them to study how interactions between protons and neutrons ...

Chemists have used the sticky substance found in mussels to develop self-assembling, biocompatible macroscale fibers that can be used as scaffolds for directed cell growth.

Researchers describe the principle of convergence in unicellular organisms and cnidarians in a new scientific report.

A research team has confirmed that targeting SnCs could treat age-related degenerative joint disease.