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A new blood test in development has shown ability to screen for numerous types of cancer with a high degree of accuracy, a trial of the test shows.

Researchers are developing a technique for imaging mammalian gene expression with ultrasound by combining human bacteria and virus DNA.

A new analysis of Kotzebue Sound fish has found that mercury levels in a variety of its subsistence species are safe for unrestricted consumption. The study tested 297 subsistence-caught fish. The average mercury levels ...

Telomere lengthening resulted in structural changes in the brain, including cortical thickening. By contrast, telomere shortening is associated with gray matter reduction, specifically in the precuneus.

Your musical preference may reveal a lot about your personality traits and political orientation, and vice versa.

Study sheds light on the olfactory importance of the smell of a newborn baby's head and mother-child bonding.

The physicist and computer scientist Stephanie Wehner is planning and designing the next internet—a quantum one --

How many people could fit on the moon? Answering that may require asking other questions -- about lunar survival.

Here are the facts about the flu shot and why this vaccine can't give you the flu virus.