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The pharmaceutical industry churns out dozens of new drugs and biological products every year. Most are small tweaks to something previously approved by the FDA--so called "me-too" alternatives, which are different formu...

Scientific research is helping to unlock the secrets behind why some people live to become super-agers. Researchers propose ways in which we can slow the aging process and extend our life spans.

Researchers report a common yeast infection can cross the blood-brain barrier, triggering an inflammatory response that results in the formation of granuloma type structures and temporary memory impairments in mice.

A new special report raises the question, in light of modern medical developments, whether clinicians should redefine what is meant by the term 'death'.

Laser-cooled plasma has all the chill.

A significant data breach has exposed the personal information of chancellor Angela Merkel along with hundreds of other German politicians

Mars and the Moon are covered in abrasive dust that will stick to and shred spacesuits - but not if those spacesuits are made using non-stick carbon nanotube-based materials

In the 1980s, the discovery of high-temperature superconductors known as cuprates upended a widely held theory that superconductor materials carry electrical current without resistance only at very low temperatures of ar...

Operation Reinhard, known as the single largest murder campaign during the Holocaust, was worse than historians imagined.

Precise simulations of the movement and behavior of crowds can be vital to the production of digital sequences or the creation of large structures for crowd management. However, the ability to quantitatively predict the ...

China just became the first country to land a probe on the far side of the moon. It's a technological achievement and another sign of China's capabilities and ambitions in space.

We're using the wrong words to talk about artificial intelligence. The 11th of our 12 Days of Culture shows where we've gone wrong and why it really matters

Japan's move is bad news for whales within its waters, but spells the end of high seas whaling, says Matthew Collis

Hundreds of millions of years of missing sedimentary rock may have been bulldozed away by the glaciers of Snowball Earth.

For many modern technical applications, such as superconducting wires for magnetic resonance imaging, engineers want as much as possible to get rid of electrical resistance and its accompanying production of heat.

We know that rabbits eat some of their own faeces - they may do so in order to better metabolise their food so they can grow larger

From simply flying planes in straighter lines to sucking fuel from thin air, a raft of new technologies that could help us fly guilt-free are in the offing

The first temple to Xipe Tótec, the "Flayed Lord," has been discovered in Mexico.

Is our universe sitting on the edge of an expanding bubble?

The emptiest space in the universe is full of gas.

Alleged dangers of screen time have been exaggerated, worrying parents. Here are some guidelines to ensure screens are used positively, says paediatrician Max Davie

The U.S. woman acquired the infection while on a yoga retreat in India.