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Should you trust that BPA-free sticker?

This extraordinary case shows that organ transplants can not only pass on infectious diseases, but also cancer, at least in some rare cases.

Researchers report truth is key to normal human interactions and consider how society might be losing its sense of shared reality.

Researchers are embarking on a new project to better understand the mechanisms of cognitive control.They hope to generate a specific mathematical model for each individual's brain activity in order to understand how cogn...

GENETICS Plan to Build a Genetic Noah’s Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species George Dvorsky | Gizmodo “As its name [G10K] implies, this group had initially planned to sequence the genomes of at least 10,000 verte...

Nearly a century later, an American with diabetes can pay as much as US$400 per month for insulin, driving some uninsured patients to desperate and dangerous measures. Clearly, something went wrong.

All systems are go for launch in November of NASA's Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission, which will use high-resolution laser ranging to study Earth's forests and topography from the International Spac...