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A list of the winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, including Marie Curie, Roger Kornberg and Otto Hahn.

SCIENCE is an international affair. Researchers from different countries frequently collaborate with each other, a process made ever easier by the rise of electronic communications. Sometimes, they actually change countr...

The most comprehensive study yet into how people respond to risk has found that there is a common factor that drives all types of risk-taking

Physicist Erik Verlinde will discuss his and others’ groundbreaking gravitational theories during a live webcast tonight at 7 P.M. Eastern time --

Companies like 23andMe that offer to reveal your genetic secrets from a spit test can also sell your data to drug developers for big sums

The recent earthquake in Mexico City shows even the best tremor alarms sometimes only go off seconds before - but clever planning can mean those few seconds save many people

The sun is an hour over the horizon. It's the first week of October in Maryland, and there's something uniquely enchanting in how the light catches the tips of the trees. What is it that makes this morning sunlight so sp...

A plan to grab immigrants' digital profiles in the US is just another case of the misguided idea that mass surveillance is effective, says Ray Corrigan

The political reality is that the US will never be rid of its weapons. The country must realise its gun epidemic is a public health crisis, and treat it as such

Apple has upgraded next-generation cochlear implants to work with iPhones, allowing users to stream audio directly into the device

We don't know much about the genetic evolution of the human brain. Now experiments suggest genes involved in cell stickiness may have given our brain its folds

Here's a look at all winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, including Steven Chu, Aage Niels Bohr and Enrico Fermi.

Computing with light and designing brain-inspired hardware are at the experimental fringes of technology research. But they both come with potentially enormous advantages, so a group of scientists has decided to combine ...

The Palace at Versailles housed kings and queens of France until the French Revolution.

Paul Revere is famous for his midnight ride, but now he might be celebrated -- at least among archaeologists -- for the contents of his outhouse, according to news sources.

In many areas from materials sciences to medicine, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) is used for detailed molecule-specific investigations. Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now succeeded in enhan...

The global health agency pledged to reduce the death toll - now running at 95,000 a year - by improving sanitation and strategically deploying an oral vaccine

White-footed mice from New York City are genetically distinct from their country-dwelling cousins, and their urban diets may be responsible

What happens in the brain and body in the moments after cardiac arrest?

After a series of monster hurricanes made September the most active month on record for the Atlantic, the basin has quieted down, though likely not for long.

Denying mass shooters their fame could decrease attacks.

Researchers have modelled the actions of electrons under extreme temperatures and densities, such as those found within planets and stars.