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New research has just confirmed the old suspicion that the residences of single men are among the most foul in the land. In fact, they have 15 times the amount of bacteria than do the homes of bachelorettes.

A team of researchers who got a first look at a foot bone from famous fossil Lucy who lived 3 million or more years ago, and concluded this ancestor was fully comfortable with life on the ground, rather than in the trees.

Researchers have demonstrated an idea for an invisibility cloak using calcite, a common crystalline material.

Some researchers now question last year's discovery of a planet outside our solar system, in a so-called "habitable" zone not too hot for liquid ...

Researchers have developed a simple geometrical method to add weight to the idea that ours is a flat, dark-energy-rich Universe.

Research shows they tend to get the condition almost seven years earlier than white Americans. The Alzheimer's Assn. calls the situation 'a looming but unrecognized public health crisis.'Arturo Reyes sat quietly as his family talked about traveling to Mexico over the holidays.

Teens who text 120 times a day or more — and there seems to be a lot of them — are more likely to have had sex or used alcohol and drugs than kids who don't send as many messages, according to provocative new research.

Outgoing people appear to suffer worse from the effects of lack of sleep, US Army researchers suggest.

Research by University of Leeds plant scientists has uncovered a snapshot of evolution in progress, by tracing how a gene mutation over 100 million years ago led flowers to make male and female parts in different ways.

An appeals court ruled Tuesday that government funding of embryonic stem cell research can continue for now.