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Kim Jong-un's regime has tested a missile that could eventually hit the continental US with Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons. Talks, war or sanctions are the only ways forward

For Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro, one of the most interesting things about androids is the changing questions they pose us, their creators, as they evolve. Does it, for example, do something to the concept of being human if a hu...

Researchers developed ways to temporarily eliminate the sense of smell in adult mice, and discovered that those mice that lost smell could eat a high-fat diet and stay a normal weight, while littermates that retained the...

People with the movement disorder Parkinson's disease have a much higher risk of the skin cancer melanoma, and vice versa, a new study finds. While further research is needed into the connection, physicians treating one ...

A hidden population of black holes born less than one second after the big bang could solve the mystery of dark matter --

By combining graphene with another two-dimensional material, researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have created a prototype of a transistor-like device for future computers, based on what is known as spintroni...

The 1920s and early '30's looked like the beginning of the end for centuries of gay intolerance. Then came fascism and the Nazis.

The less sleep kids get, the shorter the telomeres that cap off their chromosomes are - a sign of ageing that has been linked to cancer and heart disease

Two major issues confronting magnetic-confinement fusion energy are enabling the walls of devices that house fusion reactions to survive bombardment by energetic particles, and improving confinement of the plasma require...

According to a study encompassing the entire Finnish population, traumatic brain injury associated with an increased risk for dementia in working-age adults. Yet, no such relationship was found between traumatic brain in...

Researchers have adapted an existing diagnostic test for malaria to predict the dangerous complications that sometimes arise after the parasite is eradicated from patients' blood.

Researchers recently used Fast Relaxation Imaging (FReI) to investigate the folding stability and dynamics of proteins within polyacrylamide hydrogels.

A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive 'neoantigens' on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melanoma patients, report scientists...

Research on how memories form in the brain should consider activity of groups of brain cells working together, not just the connections between them, argue experts in a new report.

A new way to screen brain tumor cells has been revealed by researchers who have also identified potential drug targets missed by other methods.

Levels of a nerve cell signaling molecule called substance P -- measured in tear samples -- might be a useful marker of diabetes-related nerve damage (neuropathy), suggests a study.

By developing a new technique for labeling the gene segments of influenza viruses, researchers now know more about how influenza viruses enter the cell and establish cell co-infections - a major contributing factor to po...

A new method to visualize cancer metastasis in whole organs at the single-cell level has now been developed by researchers. A new study describes a new method that combines the generation of transparent mice with statist...

The risk of developing non-Alzheimer's dementia is nearly twice as high for people who sustain severe head injuries than for those who have mild ones

Healthy skin has a mix of bacteria living on it, but increases in particular strains of Staphylococcus has been linked to bad eczema flare-ups in children

More than 1500 people have now died in Yemen's cholera epidemic. Two years of civil war have placed huge strain on the country's hospitals and infrastructure

Thousands of people could be ferried along a 2-kilometre route including the O2 Arena in Greenwich, south London, in a four-week test of driverless shuttles