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Physicists at experiment in Italy continue to see a data fluctuation that they say represents dark matter—but the mystery deepens --

A team of forensic scientists has managed to extract DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy, and their finding has solved a century-old mystery of its ransacked tomb.

Earthquakes, cyclones, floods... The deadliest natural disasters have a combined estimated death toll of nearly 10 million people.

Researchers report within the first weeks of life, deaf cats have reduced connections between the anterior ectosylvian sulcus and the superior colliculus. However, deaf cats have increased connections from other auditory...

On your next stroll through the woods, take a look at the dew droplets hanging from the leaves. If you see moisture on a cypress or juniper tree with their distinct bifurcated leaves, you'll likely see those water drople...

Physicists have identified a new state of matter whose structural order operates by rules more aligned with quantum mechanics than standard thermodynamic theory. In a classical material called artificial spin ice, which ...

A new study reveals how interneurons emerge and diversify in the brain.

Fish and seafood are normally fairly environmentally friendly, but it takes so much fuel to catch some species that their carbon footprint is as big as that of red meat

Access to medical marijuana may have cut patients' need for this other drug.

Cells comprising a tissue can pack into disorderly geometries much as do grains of sand in a sandcastle. In doing so they can freeze into a fixed shape--as in a sandcastle--or flow like sand poured from a beach bucket. T...

For some NASA scientists, the extreme environments they study aren't on a distant planet or moon -- they're right here on Earth.

Researchers reveal people tend to be more persuaded towards appeals that are infused with emotion, regardless of whether they are negative or positive.

Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn't have children. Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children.

It doesn't swell when dipped in "bodily fluids." Hmm.

Eighteen years on from the first human genome sequence, we are finally getting a glimpse of what genetically tailored medicine might look like

MIT cut ties with the brain-preserving company citing a lack of research.

Research shows it's not actually inequality we care about - it's unfairness. But that fact shouldn't be interpreted as supporting the status quo

The behavior of electrons in a material is typically difficult to predict. Novel insight comes now from experiments and simulations performed by a team led by ETH physicists who have studied electronic transport properti...

A team of computer programmers trained a neural network to be a "psychopath." What could possibly go wrong?

Some modern Yoruba people in West Africa carry DNA that suggests an ancient species of hominin lingered longer than we thought

Estonia is to become the first nation to give state-sponsored genetic advice on health and disease risks, and plans to extend the scheme to all its residents

Welcome to the actual middle of nowhere -- home of the world's largest spaceship cemetery.