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People who smoke cigarettes may boost their risk of clogged heart arteries by weakening a gene that is otherwise protective ...

Ghana has recorded massive fiscal deficits for 49 years due to reckless public spending and mismanagement by successive governments. This ...

High-tech dating of mastodon remains found in southern California has shattered the timeline of human migration to America, pushing the ...

History books describing how life on Earth developed may need to be rewritten, thanks to the accidental discovery of fossilised ...

A number of studies have shown that physical activity can have positive effects on the brain, particularly in later life. ...

Salting of roads in winter helps drivers navigate snow and ice, but the runoff may be irreparably damaging freshwater lakes ...

The UK has now started the formal process of leaving the EU, but scientists say they have evidence of a ...

New Zealand will not hold an inquiry into "discredited" allegations its special forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan, Prime Minister ...

Voluntary efficiency programmes -- including one targeted for elimination by the Trump administration -- have led to energy savings of ...

A spike in water temperature lasting only days bleached all the coral in a South China Sea atoll, and killed ...

What causes cancer? A new study published Thursday suggests that cells make random mistakes while dividing, accounting for most of ...

A new vaccine that is cheap to make and does not require refrigeration has shown promise in preventing rotavirus, a ...

A new smartphone device can analyze a man's sperm quality and let him know in a matter of minutes whether ...

Tobacco use fell by 2.5 percent worldwide a decade after the first global health treaty went into effect, World Health ...

Global warming has boosted the frequency and severity of deadly air pollution peaks in northern China, scientists said Monday. Toxic ...

Low-oxygen areas of the ocean known as dead zones threaten hundreds of coral reefs worldwide, fragile ecosystems already struggling because ...

Researchers said Friday they had found an indigenous Amazonian tribe with the lowest levels of artery hardening -- a portender ...

An unproven stem cell therapy that involves extracting a patient's fat tissue and injecting it into the eyes has caused ...

Sleeping too much or too little can increase the likelihood of becoming obese, researchers have discovered. The study found abnormal ...

People sparked most US wildfires in recent decades, causing longer fire seasons and increasing the amount of scorched earth, according ...