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Only six months after undergoing a unique and innovative surgery at Michigan State University, Jake – part dog and now part machine – spends his time working out on an underwater treadmill, traversing obstacle courses and prancing around pain free.

Imagine a creature with breath so foul it reminds you of your worst date!

Long missing from the fossil records, and now newly discovered in the fossil beds of an ancient sea that once covered New Hampshire, the world was stunned today to learn of the discovery of a unknown species of tremendous size.

Scientists are on the hunt for evidence of antimatter — matter’s arch nemesis — left over from the very early Universe. New results using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Compton Gamma Ray Observatory suggest the search may have just become even more difficult.

A “living fossil” tree species is helping a University of Michigan researcher understand how tropical forests responded to past climate change and how they may react to global warming in the future.

More than 35 million people in Bangladesh, around a quarter of its population, face acute poverty and hunger. Dowry payments of more than 200 times the daily wage and costly medical expenses are major causes of this chronic poverty says research from the University of Bath.

Bumblebee colonies which are fast learners are also better able to fight off infection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Leicester.

Oregon and Hawaiian researchers have found that a woman’s weight does not seem to affect sexual behavior. In fact, overweight women are more likely to report having sex with men than women considered to be of “normal weight.”

Giving children with milk allergies increasingly higher doses of milk over time may ease, and even help them completely overcome, their allergic reactions, according to the results of a study led by the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and conducted jointly with Duke University.

The Hubble Space Telescope is back in business with a snapshot of the fascinating galaxy pair Arp 147.

12-Year-Old Boy Scouts Volunteer To Give Women Breast Exams

Double, double, toil and trouble! Fire burn and cauldron bubble! Something wicked this way comes…

Researchers have revealed the complete mitochondrial genome of one of the world’s most celebrated mummies, known as the Tyrolean Iceman or Ötzi. The sequence represents the oldest complete DNA sequence of modern humans’ mitochondria, according to the report published online on October 30th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.

The world’s rarest big cat is alive and well. At least one of them, that is, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) who captured and released a female Far Eastern leopard in Russia last week.

Nature Magazine’s latest issue, just published online, endorses Obama. Interestingly, this is not because of “any specific pledge to fund some particular agency or initiative at a certain level.” Instead, the editorial emphasizes the contrast in the ways the two candidates reach decisions.

As millions of Americans gear up for the Thanksgiving holiday, a new research report published online in The FASEB Journal, may provide some relief for those leery of having a second helping.

If the real world, at its base, is quantum, then should we not think with quantum logic?

Shahn Majid discusses how the notion of quantum symmetry coming out of modern ideas on space and time could provide clues to the workings of a truly quantum computer.

A new study in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy explored how men and women perceive online and offline sexual and emotional infidelity. Results show that men felt sexual infidelity was more upsetting and women felt emotional infidelity was more upsetting.

Seven Puget Sound orcas (killer whales) are missing, presumed dead – a severe drop in the population (almost 10%). What’s causing the sharp decline in whales?

Do “undecided” voters actually make their choices before they realize? That is a question University of Virginia psychology professor Brian Nosek and his colleagues are trying to answer. “Many people, especially early in the political process, declare themselves as undecided,” Nosek said. “But while they have consciously said that they are undecided, they unconsciously may have already made a choice.”