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WAY-316606, a compound originally developed to treat osteoporosis, has a dramatic stimulatory effect on human hair follicles, according to a study published...

Earth is surrounded by a protective magnetic environment, the magnetosphere, which deflects a supersonic stream of charged particles from the Sun, known...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa, or simply the Tower of Pisa, is a bell tower of the Cathedral of the Italian city of Pisa, known worldwide for its unintended...

An international team of astronomers has found that a small Kuiper Belt object called 2004 EW95 is a carbonaceous (carbon-rich) asteroid — the first...

A research team led by a University of Cambridge scientist has found that in the brain, cholesterol acts as a catalyst which triggers the formation of...

Planetary nebulae — massive rings of luminous, interstellar gas and dust — mark the end of the active life of 90% of all stars. But, for years,...

An international team of biologists from the United States and Germany has discovered a new species of shrew living in a forested area on Mt. Mantalingahan,...

A team of geologists at the University of Texas at Dallas and Austin has put forward an intriguing new hypothesis that links the dawn of plate tectonics...

A modified form of a compound called itaconate suppresses an inflammatory pathway that is overactive in many autoimmune diseases, suggesting that it may...

A research team led by Rutgers University’s Professor Dennis Kent has documented a gradual shift in Earth’s orbit that repeats regularly every 405,000...

A group of astronomers from Ireland, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States has found that the atmosphere of the exoplanet WASP-96b...

Intestinal stem cells are responsible for maintaining the lining of the intestine, which typically renews itself every 5 days. When an injury or infection...

An international team of scientists has unearthed 57 stone tools and butchered animal bones at Kalinga in the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon, the largest...

Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures that can be found in the Universe — giant groupings of galaxies bound together by gravity....

NASA’s Mars InSight mission successfully launched today at 7:05 a.m. EDT (4:05 a.m. PDT) from Space Launch Complex 3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California,...

First discovered by Italian mathematician and priest Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654, NGC 6231 is a young star cluster located in the constellation...

The European mistletoe (Viscum album) is a plant steeped in ancient associations with druids and Northern European folklore and since the 18th century,...

According to a study published in the journal PLoS ONE, a 35,000-year-old flint flake found at a Middle Paleolithic site in Crimea, Ukraine, was likely...

Middle-aged to elderly men and women who take frequent sauna baths have a substantially reduced risk of new-onset stroke, according to a 15-year follow-up...