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Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian ...

Extreme dry mouth, caused by radiation used to treat cancer and by autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren's disease, radically ...

Moth swarms so thick they can blot out the stars are fluttering across Australia, heralding a migratory spectacle unseen since the creature's brush with extinction nearly 10 years ago.

A research consortium has generated the broadest look yet at the proteins that make up mitochondria, capturing the ...

New research brings together recent advances in urban hydrology, boundary-layer meteorology, extreme precipitation and ...

An international study led by researchers from Charles University in Prague (CUNI) and the Biology Centre of the Czech ...

When scientists assess how dangerous a bacterium is, the first question often seems simple: Can it be stopped or killed? In ...

Watermarks have long protected everything from bank notes and fine art to digital photographs and software, helping prove ...