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Creating new healthy heart muscle cells within a patient's own ailing heart. This is how scientists hope to reverse heart disease one day. Today,...

Engineers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Oregon State University are developing a new method of processing nanomaterials that could lead to faster and cheaper...

Heat waves are among the deadliest and most common of environmental extremes. As the earth continues to warm due to the buildup of greenhouse...

The speed of our technology doubles every year, right? Not anymore. We've come to take for granted that as the years go on, computing technology gets faster,...

A class of chemicals used in many industrial and consumer products was linked with greater weight gain after dieting, particularly among women, according to...

Overwhelming scientific evidence has demonstrated that our planet is getting warmer due to climate change, yet parts of the eastern U.S. are actually getting...

High-tech scans of the resting human brain can provide a new way to define and interpret the brain's actual mental capacity, new research suggests. In...

Researchers have designed a new LED-based train headlight that uses a tenth of the energy required for headlights using conventional light sources. If operated...

When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in...

A new UC San Francisco study has shown that a cancer-killing ("oncolytic") virus currently in clinical trials may function as a cancer vaccine -...

Perhaps you missed the news that the price of hummus has spiked in Great Britain. The cause, as the New York Times reported on...