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It's not often that a paper in a climate change journal declares United States government scientists wrong about volumes of environmental work they have produced after four years of extensive…

Is beauty in the face of the beheld? Shutterstock By Richard Cook, City University London Beauty, it is said, is in the eye of the beholder. And yet, there are many faces that a majority would find…

For most people, the Jurassic period conjures up images of huge dinosaurs chomping their way through lush vegetation and each other.  But mammals and their immediate ancestors were also around…

Cornell University marketing researchers recently tracked the purchasing records in a supermarket chain that uses the Guiding Stars System to rate the nutritional value of foods for sale. …

Among the popular mythologies built up around native American cultures is that they had no disease before Europeans arrived full of pathogens. It's a common narrative in anthropology, it just was…

David Gorski of Wayne State University School of Medicine and Steven Novella of Yale University, writing in Trends in Molecular Medicine, call for an end to clinical trials of "highly implausible…

By Charis Palmer, The Conversation Crowdsourcing competitions, popular with companies seeking to tap into groups of knowledge, are often diminished by malicious behaviour, according to a new study.…

In a bygone era, doctors thought every life was important. Treatment was aggressive and persistent in intensive care units even when it might be futile.  In the 21st century world, resources are…

For the first time, scientists have mapped elevation changes of Greenlandic and Antarctic glaciers. For the new digital maps, the researchers evaluated all data by the CryoSat-2 altimeter SIRAL.…

A newborn screening test for severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) reliably identifies infants with this life-threatening inherited condition, leading to prompt treatment and high survival rates.…

There are several security vulnerabilities in full-body backscatter X-ray scanners deployed to U.S. airports between 2009 and 2013. In laboratory tests, researchers were able to successfully conceal…

The structural components of advanced reactors such as the sodium fast reactor and the traveling wave nuclear reactor must be able to withstand the extreme levels of radioactivity from the fission…

Where the river meets the sea, there is the potential to harness a significant amount of renewable energy, according to a team of mechanical engineers at MIT who evaluated the method of power…

Changes in the Asian monsoon have affected emissions of methane from the Tibetan Plateau over the last 6,000 years, finds a new paper. The concentration of methane in the atmosphere has more than…

Researchers have developed a way to use windows for solar energy - without ruining your view. The new technology is a solar concentrator, called a transparent luminescent solar concentrator, that is…

Earth's magnetic field, a familiar directional indicator over long distances, is routinely probed in applications ranging from geology to archeology, and now it has provided the basis for a technique…

By Oliver Griffith, University of Sydney Have you ever wondered why we give birth to live young rather than lay eggs? Scientists have pondered this for a long time and answers have come from an…

Ruxolitinib (trade name: Jakavi) has been approved since August 2012 for the treatment of adults with myelofibrosis. Myelofibrosis is a rare disease of the bone marrow, in which the bone marrow is…

Researchers have created highly focused pathways that can channel electricity through the atmosphere. It's not a new idea, Nikola Tesla worked on powering wireless lamps using electrostatic induction…