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Advertisements in two top-selling parenting magazines ads contain photographs or describe products that conflict with the health and safety recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics

MUSICA is part of a new DARPA program to explore new ways that people can interact with computers and robots

This winter is likely to be wetter and warmer than average, thanks to a strong El Niño brewing in the Pacific Ocean

Nasty superbug MRSA hits Daniel Fells following a cortisone shot to relieve pain from toe and ankle injuries

Patients should be monitored for elevated risk of self-harm after weight loss procedure, researchers say

Homo naledi’s hands and feet could reveal answers about a key shift in human evolution—the move from a life of climbing trees to one spent walking on the ground

Hiding out in what is now New Mexico, beaver-like animal used specialized dentition to live on plants

Once thought of as a lush alien world teeming with life and later dismissed as an arid, desolate orb, the Red Planet’s salty, liquid water just might aid in the search for extraterrestrial life

Officials say the new cases are not related to the city’s summertime Legionnaires outbreak, the largest in the city’s history, which sickened 120 people in the South Bronx

The discovery may be evidence of the oldest known case of ritual beheading in the New World

In an off-the-cuff remark to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, the former National Security Agency contractor suggested E.T. might send encrypted messages that humans mistake for noise

Tricycle accidents requiring a visit to the emergency room peak when children reach age 2, a new study finds

The large piece of wing could offer up clues for authorities hoping to locate the rest of the airplane and determine what happened to the ill-fated aircraft

Consequences of global sea level rise could be even scarier than the worst-case scenarios predicted by the dominant climate models

Device acts like a wormhole, as if the magnetic field was transferred through an “extra special dimension”

The EPA is now scrambling to mitigate the mess it created when agency workers inadvertently unleashed a pool of wastewater from an abandoned gold mine

Discovering the first true “alien Earth” is a long-held dream of astronomers. Recent exoplanet discoveries suggest that their dream will come true in the not-too-distant future

From its source to its treatment, here are some of the most important things to know about the disease and the current outbreak

The recently discovered piece of aircraft surfaced more than 3,200 kilometers from the initial search site

Scientists solved the mystery of how water striders accomplish amazing leaps and built a robot capable of doing the same

Collapsible lungs allow these sea mammals to inhale and exhale two to three times quicker than humans

Findings contradict prevailing view that bacteria become less “fit” when they acquire resistance to drugs

Small, discreet and often Bluetooth-enabled, the new generation of hearing aids can connect wirelessly with smartphones

New study finds that a burn may change the community of bacteria within a person's gut, and possibly lead to an increased risk of infection