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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has found intriguing structures on Mars that look like tiny, fossilized worm burrows -- but mission team members aren't claiming that the finds are evidence of life.

Drinking alcohol can cause damage to DNA that can lead to an increase in cancer risk, according to a new study done in animals.

ROBOTS The Year Robots Backflipped Their Way Into Our Hearts Will Knight | MIT Technology Review "Legged robots remain very expensive and difficult to commercialize. So it came as little surprise when Google sold Boston ...

Taking paracetamol during pregnancy may impair the future fertility of female offspring, according to a new review. The article reviews three separate rodent studies that all report altered development in the reproductiv...

Tobacco shops, also known as smoke shops, may represent potential 'nuisance properties' in urban communities of color, a study has found. Nuisance properties are properties where unsafe activities affecting public health...

The 75th anniversary of Tesla's death on Jan. 7 provides a timely opportunity to review the life of a man who came from nowhere yet became world famous.

The thresher sharks likely didn't die of hypothermia.

Scleroderma with internal organ involvement is a debilitating and lethal autoimmune disorder with few effective treatments. But a study has now found new cause for optimism using an aggressive stem cell transplant regime...