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The iPhone changed the game not because of the technical details of the device, but rather as a result of its creators' imagination and courage.

A huge crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf is about to calve a Delaware-size iceberg. Here's a look at the gorgeous, yet collapsing, ice sheet.

A Kentucky Fried Chicken sandwich is now scheduled to travel into the stratosphere on Thursday (June 29) aboard one of World View Enterprise's Stratollite high-altitude balloon systems.

Measuring a set of proteins in the blood may enable earlier diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study.

New research could change treatment approaches to simple skin abscesses, infections often caused by Staphylococcus aureus (staph) bacteria.

By measuring the random jiggling motion of electrons in a resistor, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have contributed to accurate new measurements of the Boltzmann constant, a fund...

As we age, telling tones apart gets harder - which makes learning languages difficult. A drug that restores hearing in old mice may one day improve human hearing

Studies in Europe and Canada show that controversial neonicotinoid insecticides have adverse effects on reproduction of honeybees and wild bees

Laws that require increasingly older kids to sit in car safety seats appear to have limited impact, new research has found.

Devoted runners suffer from a surprisingly high rate of injury. One reason for these injuries is that runners endure many shocks from the impact, and these cause vibrations that travel from the foot throughout the entire...

Cancer scientists overestimate the extent to which high-profile preclinical studies can be successfully replicated, new research suggests.

Lymphatic filariasis -- a parasitic infection commonly known as elephantiasis -- is among the 10 neglected tropical diseases that the World Health Organization is aiming to eliminate by 2020. In Cameroon, large-scale ann...

Researchers have generated near-atomic resolution images of key steps in CRISPR-Cas3 function. The findings reveal multiple layers of error detection that prevent unintended genomic damage. Structural understanding infor...

Scientists have uncovered how nerve cells in the spinal cord are organized in precise patterns during embryo development -- a finding that could give insight into regenerative medicine.

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University and Goucher College, have discovered a new topological material which may enable fault-tolerant quantum computing. It is a f...

Nothing, not even light, can come out of a black hole. At least, that's the conventional wisdom, and it's certainly true that--once the event horizon is crossed--there's no going back. But for rotating black holes, there...

A scientific research team has discovered might be considered emergency replacements for the epigenetic 'sentries' that normally protect the genome from transposons and viruses. These shock troops are pressed into servic...

Researchers have identified gut microbiota that interact with brain regions associated with mood and behavior. This may be the first time that behavioral and neurobiological differences associated with microbial composit...

Researchers studied the link between food allergy and childhood anxiety and depression among a sample of predominantly low socioeconomic status minority children and found that children with a food allergy had a signific...

Researchers are recommending in a new study that children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder should be checked for developmental coordination disorder since the two maladies are linked.

A whale that lived 30 million years ago had extraordinary back teeth for sieving out small prey, while its front teeth let it catch big prey too

A new type of polymer -- material made of long chains of molecules -- inches along like a caterpillar when illuminated.