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— By measuring the weight, waists and hips of almost 20,000 Germans, scientists have concluded that beer is not the main cause of the "site-spec...

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— Researchers have traced the molecular interactions that allow the protein survivin to escape the nucleus of a breast cancer cell and prolong the ce...

— A team of scientists has announced the discovery of a 3.4 million-year-old partial foot from the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia....

— In its budget submitted to Congress Feb. 13, the Obama administration zeroed out funding for NASA’s future Mars exploration missions. The Mars Scie...

— The brain appears to be wired more like the checkerboard streets of New York City than the curvy lanes of Columbia, Md., suggests a new brain imagi...

— An extended drought that struck Mauritius about 4200 years ago turned one of the island's few sources of fresh water into a muddy death trap f...

— Monster elliptical galaxies such as the Sombrero Galaxy have long been thought to form when two smaller spiral-shaped galaxies collide. They range...

— There has been a lot of discussion about how a mild winter, an early spring and a bumper crop of acorns might affect the number of mosquitoes and t...