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Plastic packaging might seem impenetrable -- and sometimes nearly impossible to remove -- but water molecules can still pass through. And this permeability to...

Credit: Mayo Clinic Can estrogen preserve brain function and decrease the risk of Alzheimer's disease when given early in menopause? Newly postmenopausal women who received...

Daughters and sons of mothers who tied the knot young are more likely to want to marry early too, but only if Mom stayed...

For the first time, researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and University of Leeds have proved that gene variants associated with red hair,...

This color view from NASA's Juno spacecraft is made from some of the first images taken by JunoCam after the spacecraft entered orbit around...

Artist's conception of evolution of metal-poor and "metal-rich" supernovae at different phases and simulated light curves from shock breakout (ultraviolet) through plateau (red, green...

New research from McMaster University is challenging traditional workout wisdom, suggesting that lifting lighter weights many times is as efficient as lifting heavy weights...

This artist's impression depicts the accretion disc surrounding a black hole, in which the inner region of the disc precesses. "Precession" means that the...

The shapes of the fossil and modern footprints are nearly indistinguishable.Credit: Kevin Hatala / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Fossil bones and stone tools...

This is an illustration showing how the "Window to the Brain" transparent skull implant created by UC Riverside researchers would work.Credit: UC Riverside Researchers at...

This reproduction of The Starry Night contains 65,536 glowing pixels and is just the width of a dime across.Credit: Paul Rothemund and Ashwin Gopinath/Caltech Using...