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The Big Bang theory is the best known and most accepted explanation for the beginning and evolution of the universe, but it is hardly a consensus among scientists.

The temperature and pressure inside Jupiter range from about -100°C near the edge to about 15,000°C and 50m times the Earth's atmospheric pressure in the middle. Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are similar pressure cookers....

The boundary between the Earth's outermost layer, the crust, and the underlying mantle is speckled with mysterious, blob-like regions that slow down seismic waves and lead to volcanic eruptions.

For the first time, scientists have used high-performance computing (HPC) to reconstruct the data collected by a nuclear physics experiment--an advance that could dramatically reduce the time it takes to make detailed da...

Winter crises grip the UK health system with worrying predictability and this year's could be severe. We can move beyond this seasonal chaos, says Luke Allen

As many as 27 per cent of men - and 29 per cent of women - in the UK are now obese, meaning the country has one of the worst obesity problems in Europe

Full results from a second Phase 3 clinical study of LMTX®, the first tau aggregation inhibitor in Alzheimer's disease, has been released by researchers.

A powerful new computer model replicates the biological activity within the heart that precedes sudden cardiac death.

Federal officials considering new regulations on tobacco products should give more weight to the fact that a majority of smokers are unhappy about feeling addicted to cigarettes, and should put less emphasis on the theor...

A new method for delivering chemotherapy nanodrugs has been created that increases the drugs' bioavailability and reduces side-effects. Their study shows that administering an FDA-approved nutrition source prior to chemo...

In a late-night test, North Korea has launched what appears to be an intercontinental ballistic missile with potential to reach as far as Washington, DC

Most of Australia's Great Barrier Reef may well be destroyed in the next few decades, but hubs of resilient coral could make larvae to restore it all

The inability to understand and effectively use health information is linked to higher rates of hospitalization, reduced preventive care and increased health costs. A new report highlights the benefits of health literacy...

In the Large Hadron Collider, protons become new particles, which become energy and light, which become data. Scientists have never actually seen the Higgs boson. They've never seen the inside of a proton, either, and th...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have invented a new approach to testing multilayered, three-dimensional computer chips that are now appearing in some of the latest consumer device...

Women are twice as likely as men to have asthma, and this gender difference may be caused by the effects of sex hormones on lung cells. Researchers have found that testosterone hindered an immune cell linked to asthma sy...

Investigators have discovered dozens of new genetic variations associated with a person's general cognitive ability. While profiling cognitive ability, researchers also discovered a genetic overlap with longevity.

Researchers identify several lncRNAs that are linked to the ovarian cancer in a cohort of patients. These lncRNAs were reproducibly altered and are responsible for a shift in cellular function that contributes to the met...

Using new pluripotent stem cell technology, researchers have discovered unexpected effects on calcium flux on neurons from patients with neuropsychiatric disorders carrying either fewer or extra copies of the CHRNA7 gene...

The rise and fall of the Indus civilization gets a new narrative.

Add one more thing to the list of tasks your smartphone can perform. University of Houston researchers have released an open-source dataset offering instructions to people interested in building their own smartphone micr...

You're not imagining it: after 2016, the sophistication and civility of political discourse on sites like Reddit dropped from secondary school reading levels to barely literate