A new picture of a Jupiter-like world is a direct image of what may be the youngest planet yet seen, astronomers say.

Red tide at night is a sailor's delight - thanks to dinoflagellates' voltage-sensitive proton channels.

Two previously unassociated proteins known to be overly active in a variety of cancers bind together to ignite and sustain malignant brain tumors, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports this week in the journal Cancer Cell.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and colleagues in France and Germany will soon notify Internet scholars of flaws in Skype and other Internet-based phone systems that could potentially disclose the identities, locations and even digital files of the hundreds of millions of users of these systems.

People whose basic needs are met get more life satisfaction when they are more connected to others and when they experience greater autonomy, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. But those who live in dire conditions have little hope of achieving such satisfaction.

A multi-center, clinical trial studying treatments for the lung-scarring disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis has been stopped for safety concerns. The trial found that people with IPF receiving a currently used triple-drug therapy consisting of prednisone, azathioprine, and N-acetylcysteine had worse outcomes than those who received...

What makes a great violinist, physicist, or crossword puzzle solver? Are experts born or made? The question has intrigued psychologists since psychology was born -- and the rest of us, too, who may secretly fantasize playing duets with Yo Yo Ma or winning a Nobel Prize in...

Recent studies have suggested that C-11 choline positron emission tomography/computerized tomography scans can be utilized as a staging and potentially therapeutic tool in prostate cancer.

Synthetic clothes release microscopic plastic fibers when washed

These bathrooms have everything you need to answer the call of nature in style and comfort.

ContributorNetwork - The release of almost 50 exotic animals in Ohio, including several big cats like lions and tigers, which resulted in the killing of most of the them, has drawn attention to laws and regulations that seldom enter the consciousness of citizens and lawmakers. Ohio law governing exotic pets differ wildly from neighboring Pennsylvania, and the laws governing the ownership of exotic...

A horned dinosaur as long as an RV may have reached speeds above 55 kilometres an hour as it ran down its prey, estimates an Alberta researcher.

AP - The U.S. Forest Service has backed away from claims about the effectiveness of dropping huge red plumes of fire retardant on wildfires, but does not expect to cut back on its use.

Pavegen tiles convert foot-traffic into energy and also allow pedestrians to replicate the music video for Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean".

Even under the moderate fire conditions of this past summer, blazes in forests with large numbers of dead, needle-less trees turned into crown fires.

Two previously unassociated proteins known to be overly active in a variety of cancers bind together to ignite and sustain malignant brain tumors, a research team reports.

Athletes know they should just do their thing on the 18th hole, or during the penalty shootout, or when they're taking a three-point shot in the last moments of the game. But when that shot could mean winning or losing, it's easy to choke. A new article looks at why paying too much attention to what you're doing can ruin...

LiveScience.com - If one person in a heterosexual couple has human papillomavirus (HPV), there's a 20 percent chance his or her partner will pick up the virus within six months, a new study concludes.

Global warming is real, according to a major new study. Despite issues raised by climate change skeptics, the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature study finds reliable evidence of a rise in the average world land temperature of approximately 1 degree Celsius since the...

Bolivian President Evo Morales announced Friday he was cancelling a controversial plan to build a highway through an Amazon ecological reserve that has triggered widespread protests.

The upcoming UN climate talks in South Africa will be "tough" despite progress in moving toward a new round of Kyoto Protocol commitments, South Africa's foreign minister said Friday.

Facebook has until November 7 to bring its facial recognition software into conformity with privacy laws in Germany and the European Union or face legal action, a government lawyer told AFP Friday.