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Artificial skins and sensor technologies to augment "sensitivity" in robots have been engineered by European scientists. ...

The Saudi health ministry said that it would send samples taken from animals possibly infected with a deadly SARS-like virus to the United States for testing in a bid to find the source of disease. ...

Drinking five cups of coffee a day has been linked to obesity and chronic diseases, reveals study. ...

The workhorses of biotechnology, scientists are reporting that a new streamlined approach to genetic engineering drastically reduces the time and effort needed to insert new genes into bacteria. ...

Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Assistant Professor Mario Macis and a team of researchers says the answer is an emphatic yes....

In an Alzheimer's disease mouse model, an anti-cancer drug reverses memory deficits, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers confirm in the journal Science. ...

Highly respected Alzheimer's researchers team failed to replicate what appeared to be breakthrough results for the treatment of this brain disease when they were published last year in the journal Science. ...

A cancer-promoting growth factor receptor fires away, sending signals that thwart the development of tumor-suppressing microRNAs (miRNAs) before it's dissolved, even while being dragged to its destruction inside a cell. ...

A potent new class of compounds capable of curbing the bacteria that cause staph infections has been discovered by scientists. ...

According to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), patients with underlying heart failure are more likely to experience adverse outcomes from mild hypothyroidism. ...

People with higher IQ scores were faster at catching the movement of the bars when observing the smallest image. ...

The immigrant-heavy Stockholm suburb where riots have raged for five straight nights, behind the well-kept lawns and flowerbeds of Husby, unemployment is fuelling despair among the young residents. ...

In a show of religious fervour permitted by the Communist-ruled state, thousands of Chinese Catholics gathered in Shanghai for a celebration to honour the Virgin Mary. ...

In Tripura, women are finding different ways of becoming financially independent. And doll making is fast emerging as a preferred choice of profession among rural womenfolk. ...

In a northeastern Mexico mountain range, archeologists have found nearly 5,000 cave paintings made by hunter-gatherers where pre-Hispanic groups were not known to have existed. ...

In a Mexico City street taco stand, Artemio Martinez balanced his corpulent frame on a stool, downing a sweet soda and eating a final pork-filled corn tortilla. ...

An 80-year-old Japanese climber reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain, his website and a Nepalese official revealed. ...

To provide clarity around the role of Hormone Replacement Therapy, the British Menopause Society and Women's Health Concern have released updated guidelines on HRT, the benefits and the risks. ...

Detection of HIV antibodies is used to monitor trials of experimental HIV/AIDS vaccines and diagnose HIV infection. ...