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Scientists have discovered that drugs which affect the methylation state of genes could reverse autism's effects...

A sweeping review of molecular gastronomy has identified what the researchers believe is an emerging scientific discipline which they say will foster a revolution in restaurant and home kitchens...

Harvard physicists have found that a high-voltage nanotube can cause cold atoms to spiral inward under dramatic acceleration before disintegrating violently - an atomic scale destructive force that is eerily similar to the inexorable attraction black holes exert on matter at cosmic scales...

Fish swimming in treated waste water may become infertile thanks to potnet pharma residuals. One such contraceptive leftover, the hormone levonorgestrel, was found in higher concentrations in fish than in women who take the contraceptive pill...

Sexual health experts say the increase of multidrug resistance in gonorrhea raises the very real possibility that strains of

British scientists say they have evidence that the consumption of insects contaminated with heavy metals may be a factor in the mysterious global decline of carnivorous plants...

US neuroscientists have shown they can influence people's moral judgments by temporarily disrupting the right temporo-parietal junction of the brain, a finding that helps reveal how the brain constructs morality...

The exceptionally simple theory of everything - known as E8 - proposed by a surfing physicist in 2007, does not hold water, says a rock-climbing Emory mathematician...

The morning shower or soak in the tub have for the first time been identified as significant sources of the hormones, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals that pollute the environment...

Conventional facelifts to ward off the signs of aging are only fixing half the problem, according to researchers who say that facial bone structure - particularly the jaw bone - will be the next target for cosmetic surgeons...

Public awareness campaigns such as "Meatless Mondays" and Europe's "Less Meat = Less Heat" are scientifically inaccurate, says a researcher who contends there is no evidence for repeated claims that diets rich in animal products lead to an increased production of greenhouse gases...

Researchers have published the first proof that a targeted nanoparticle - injected directly into a patient's bloodstream - can enter into tumors, deliver double-stranded small interfering RNAs, and turn off an important cancer gene using a mechanism known as RNA interference...