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NASA scientists are keeping sharp eyes on Greenland's glaciers.

A two-legged creature that looks like a hybrid between a worm and a lizard recently made a rare appearance in Baja California.

A planet nearly double the size of Jupiter and 900 light years away has a glowing stratosphere and an atmosphere hot enough that iron there exists as a vapour

Researchers have solved the three-dimensional structure of a complex that is essential for the correct sorting of chromosomes into eggs and sperm during reproductive cell division or meiosis.

New hope is being given to children who suffer from a rare and severe form of epilepsy, thanks to new, unique research.

Key features of autism reflect an imbalance in signaling from excitatory and inhibitory neurons in a portion of the forebrain, and that reversing the imbalance could alleviate some of its hallmark symptoms, explain resea...

ONC201 may inhibit cancer stem cell self-renewals by altering their gene expression, according to a new study.

Researchers have found Ebola RNA in the semen of survivors two years after infection. They are calling on the World Health Organization to update its guidelines on sexual transmission.

Scientists have, for the first time, corrected a disease-causing mutation in early stage human embryos with gene editing. The technique, which uses the CRISPR-Cas9 system, corrected the mutation for a heart condition at ...

Big countries are already cutting back on support for solar and wind. They should be doing the opposite, or else the renewable revolution will falter

The revolutionary CRISPR genome editing technique could be used safely to prevent some genetic diseases, according to the first embryo study conducted in the US

Rare mutations in the amyloid precursor protein (APP) have previously been shown to be strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD).

The initiating oncogenic event in half of human lung adenocarcinomas is still unknown, a fact that complicates the development of selective targeted therapies. Researchers have demonstrated that the expression of an endo...

Three different species of Klebsiella bacteria can cause life-threatening infections in hospital patients and that all three share genes that confer resistance to the most commonly used antibiotics, new research shows. T...

A new study shows just how complex metastatic cancer is and offers some clues to attacking it. The study represents one of the largest and most comprehensive efforts to examine the genetic and molecular landscape of adva...

Scientists have spent decades studying the nature of tumor cells, but few have looked to see what was happening in the surrounding tissue. When researchers took a closer look at skin cells, they discovered the unaffected...

IT IS risky to predict who and what will win a Nobel prize. But some discoveries are so big that their receipt of science's glitziest gong seems only a matter of time. One such is CRISPR-Cas9, a powerful gene-editing tec...

Particle collisions recreating the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that filled the early universe reveal that droplets of this primordial soup swirl far faster than any other fluid. The new analysis of data from the Relativisti...

BPA has been linked to a range of health problems, but after decades of research, there's now a cheap way to remove almost all of it from contaminated water

Chemists have developed an approach that quickly and cheaply removes more than 99 percent of bisphenol A (BPA) from water. BPA, a ubiquitous and dangerous chemical used in the manufacturing of many plastics, is found in ...

A new study reveals that sound-evoked activity of neurons in the auditory system of the mouse increases the thickness of their myelin sheaths -- and enhances the speed of signal transmission -- both during development an...

To counter the decline in BMD after denosumab treatment is discontinued, osteoporosis patients may be transitioned from denosumab to other anti-resorptives. This report investigates whether a single infusion of zoledrona...