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New MIT research points the way to a technology that might make it possible to harvest much of the wasted heat produced by everything from computer...

Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine set out to address a question that has been challenging scientists for years: How do dietary restrict...

With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyf...

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In my last posting I wrote that my greatest joy is being with family and how sentiment extends to the family of God, regardless of how individu...

[image] For scientists, the thousandth microbial genome is just the start Nature Full Story ...

[image] Most of the linguistic functions in humans are controlled by the left cerebral hemisphere. A new study of captive ...

First, it was the soccer-ball-shaped molecules dubbed buckyballs. Then it was the cylindrically shaped nanotubes. Now, the hottest new material in ...

By JOHN TIERNEY Do laws about the ownership of ancient artifacts help or hurt archaeology? NY Times Full Story

DENA RIFKIN, M.D. As doctors bustle from one well-documented chart to the next, no one is counting whether they are still p...

My friend Tara McKelvey has published her Templeton-Cambridge research. It's about how Christian ideology has corrupted psychiatric care for some e...

For 150 years, Charles Darwin's[image]"The Origin of Species" has been the go-to text for understanding and teaching the princip...

[image] A new species of finch may have arisen in the Galapagos. ... Nature Full Story

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[image] Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of tradit...

An accidental discovery in a laboratory at Oregon State University has apparently solved a quest that over thousands of years has absorbed the ener...

By NICHOLAS WADE New research is pointing to a new perspective on religion, one that seeks to explain why religious behavior has occurred i...

Public health specialists working on AIDS in Africa are fond of invoking "ignorance." It is a term assigned to any local ...

By MANYA A. BRACHEAR - CHICAGO -- In-vitro fertilization made it possible for Adriana and Robert Potter to welcome twins Anabella and Mat...

[image] Every Friday, "Science and the Sacred" features an essay from a guest voice in the science and religion dialogue. This week's...