According to a new study conducted by Professor Gerald Crabtree, who heads a genetics laboratory at Stanford University in California,...

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A trio working for Abbott Laboratories Inc to treat hepatitis C obtained very high cure rates in new patients and...

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This spike-headed dinosaur roamer a much warmer Canada 78 million years ago, making it the earliest horned reptile ever. "In...

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Pack your bags and save the children ladies and gents, it's the end of the world! A group of researchers...

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As far as black holes go, Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way is...

New tests conducted by MIT researchers working at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies showed nanomaterials could lead to better armor...

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The great pics from Hubble just never end! This time, the brave telescope offered an impressive view of the center...

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This article has nothing to do with science, it is just an offbeat post, and some ranting may occur. Proceed...

An increasing number of people are starting to take their breakfast in the form of a sandwich, be it pork...

Researchers from Environment Canada (EC) and the University of Alberta have published a study in which they showed contaminants accumulated...

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Curiosity took a break from its usual rock sampling activities and instead focused on the air, trying to figure out...

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I gotta say, sometimes it absolutely baffles me to see the kind of complex studies astrophysicists do, and this is...

Archaeologists working in Bulgaria have unearthed what they claim to be the remains of the oldest prehistoric town in all...

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I recently came across a great article written in the Washington Post which really gives some insight about the economics...

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Well it may be a bit of overreaction, but with the Halloween and all, you just have to call it:...

Vesta is "peppered" with carbon materials which researchers believe were left behind by asteroids gently striking its surface. Vesta is...

The largest branch of animals in the tree of lifes are the protostomes - historically defined by the order in...

Biologists working in Brazil have discovered nine new species of orange, purple and pink tarantulas lurking around in the trees....

Hurricane Sandy continues to ravage North America, going strong at 150 km/h winds, and is expected make landfall near the...

SpaceX has gone where no private company has gone before - and safely returned. They are now officially the only...

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The general consensus was that a star called Fomalhaut doesn't host any planet. But astronomers, the thorough people they are,...

Three new members have now embarked on the International Space Station, after docking the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the Poisk...

The Cassini spacecraft recorded the aftermath of the largest, hottest gas vortex ever recorded in our solar system, making astrophysicists...

Scientists in Canada have made a remarkable discovery: they have unearthed the first fossils of a feathered dinosaur ever found...

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The European Southern Observatory has captured and analyzed an image of the center of our galaxy which, if printed at...