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New research finds that bonobo mothers take action to ensure their sons will become fathers. This way bonobo mothers increase their sons' chance of fatherhood three-fold.

Researchers have identified a new stem cell type that can significantly improve cardiac function.

In Mexicali, Mexico, an uncontrolled epidemic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, one of the deadliest tickborne diseases in the Americas, has affected more than 1,000 people since 2008.

They're in a range of consumer products — everything from toothpaste and yogurt to fabric softeners and insoles for shoes. But what puts the spring, the elasticity in gels? New research has foun..

Researchers show how the rod-shaped bacteria Bacillus subtilis maintains its precise diameter while growing end to end.

Researchers describe what happens when Yellowstone — adapted to recurring fires every 100 to 300 years — instead burns twice in fewer than 30 years. Yellowstone as we know it faces an uncertain futu..

In the pantheon of unconventional superconductors, iron selenide is a rock star. But new experiments by physicists have found the material's magnetic persona to be unexpectedly mundane.

New technologies have made the world smaller. A professor of interior architecture asks how architects respond to shifting perspectives of space for displaced people.

Researchers are building 'spidey senses' into the shells of autonomous cars and drones so that they could detect and avoid objects better.

Researchers have developed a low-cost, easy way to make custom lenses that could help manufacturers avoid the expensive molds required for optical manufacturing.