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The Breakthrough awards, each worth U.S. $3 million, honor advances in the life sciences, physics and mathematics --

A new study reports selfish people are more likely to have less children and earn less money than their more generous peers.

According to a new study, virtual reality may be a useful tool for encouraging empathy and positive attitudes towards marginalized groups.

Researchers report hippocampal plasticity can be improved by aerobic exercise and memory retraining for those with MS.

According to researchers, social media use can help to reduce depression in older people who are in pain.

In a new study, researchers at Northwestern, Harvard and Yale universities examined the shape of an electron's charge with unprecedented precision to confirm that it is perfectly spherical. A slightly squashed charge cou...

In 2016, researchers unveiled 3.7-billion-year-old fossils - a reassessment suggests the 'fossils' are actually physical scars left when the rocks were deformed

Health bodies and politicians are aiming for zero suicides, but doctors are warning this ambitious goal is simply unrealistic

Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that develops, or is first diagnosed, during pregnancy. The condition, like other forms of diabetes, involves high blood sugar levels.

Albuterol is a prescription medicine prescribed for patients struggling with asthma, emphysema, bronchitis and other lung diseases.

Ice VII (or "ice-seven") is an exotic form of ice that grows so rapidly it could, under the right conditions, freeze an ocean-world's worth of water in just a few hours. A team of researchers from Lawrence Livermore Nati...

A gigantic supercluster of galaxies that existed just two billion years after the big bang could tell us how much dark matter was around in the early universe

Silicon valley's Breakthrough Prize reveals the 21 scientists who have been recognized this year for work in drug design, biology, astrophysics, and mathematics

Scientists have a new window into the search for dark matter - an acrylic vessel that features a grouping of 12-foot-tall transparent tanks with 1-inch-thick walls.

A RUDN physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole--a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a portal between any two points in space and time--based on its wave spectrum. The res...

The placenta is usually discarded after childbirth but it's a source of mesenchymal stem cells - and they help people regain muscle strength after hip surgery

Visiting an extreme haunted house can be delightfully terrifying.

An advanced U.S. military communications satellite soared into space in the midnight hour Wednesday (Oct. 17), lighting up the sky over Florida as it launched into orbit.

When two black holes orbit one another, they create a swirling vortex of gravitational waves that could trap any nearby objects like a sci-fi tractor beam

In his final book, released Oct. 16, Stephen Hawking tackles big questions about the universe, delving into physics, cosmology, the existence of God and the future direction of humanity.

A new, limited-time-only burger at Burger King has a peculiar selling point: It's supposed to give you nightmares.

Is there room for God in the endless, expanding universe? In his final book, Stephen Hawking says no.