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Aging may seem like the most natural--and inevitable--thing in life. Yet according to a new study in Nature Medicine, rejuvenating an aging body may be as easy as kitchen renovations. Simply swap drill and hammer for a c...

Studying the photochemistry, or chemical results of light, has shown that ultraviolet radiation can set off harmful chemical reactions in the human body and, alternatively, can provide "photo-protection" by dispersing ex...

A new study of how plants grew in the environments of the dinosaur age offers some new clues about their populations.

Women tend to find male chivalry attractive even though they see it as a threat to fairness, according to a new study. Existing inequality may explain why

In response to rising water scarcity, leading Argonne National Laboratory researcher Seth Darling describes the most advanced research innovations that could address global clean water accessibility. His comprehensive pa...

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have reached a new milestone on the way to optical computing, or the use of light instead of electricity for computing. They explored a new way to select a...

Machine learning will become an even more important tool when scientists upgrade to the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider. When do a few scattered dots become a line? And when does that line become a particle track? ...

The feat could pave the way for more powerful computing, although the technology is still in its early stages --

Aided by the performance artist Brendan Walker, the folk-rock musician is giving concert-goers at London's Barbican Hall a taste of the anxiety disorder that keeps him off the stage.

A new haul of moons brings Jupiter's total to 79. Nine of the newly discovered satellites are orbiting the wrong way, and could obliterate one of their companions

A blood test that detects melanoma in its early stages may allow people to get treatment before the cancer spreads and becomes difficult to cure

Residents of a small town on Greenland's western coast were evacuated after a giant iceberg parked itself nearby.

Insurance companies are training hundreds of drone pilots to check property damage from the air to make sure claims are legitimate

Dry cleaning isn't "dry"; the process uses liquids other than water to clean fabrics.

The director of the largest U.S. public health agency reveals he has a personal reason for fighting the opioid epidemic.

Britain is experiencing a prolonged "wind drought" that has slowed or halted the blades on turbines around the country

A magnetic wire inserted into a vein could attract magnetized tumor cells

Death rates from liver cancer have risen steadily since 2000, resulting in the disease going from the ninth-leading cause of cancer death to the sixth, according to a new report.

Major data breaches have made worldwide headlines of late but an international consortium of scientists--including a professor from Heriot-Watt--have developed a new technique that could result in hack-proof systems.

Alien, or anime character? Neither! It's Genie's dogfish -- a new shark species named for the famous marine biologist, Eugenie Clark.

In a Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) "Special Feature" paper published online June 26, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and University of Michigan researchers reported on recent experi...

Scientists from Russia, Estonia and the United Kingdom have created a new method for predicting the bioconcentration factor (BCF) of organic molecules. Leveraging the classical models of physicochemical interactions betw...