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The most common and aggressive brain tumor grows by turning normal brain cells into stem cells, which can continuously replicate and regrow a tumor with only a handful of cells left behind, new research finds.

Mice with brittle skin, which tears off to escape predators, may offer clues to healing wounds without scars, according to US researchers.

New research provides compelling evidence that the last ice age was ended by a rise in temperature driven by an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Researchers at Yale have discovered the chemical triggers for hair growth, which could eventually lead the way to reversing baldness.

Alcohol increases reaction time; obese men have lower odds of getting married. A waste of research money? Not necessarily, scientists say. Medical researchers have unlocked the human genome, wiped out smallpox and made great strides in the fight against AIDS.

The Milky Way galaxy may be filled with millions upon millions of Jupiter-sized planets that have escaped their solar systems and are wandering freely in space, researchers said Wednesday in a finding that seems certain to make astronomers rethink their ideas about planetary formation.

Induced pluripotent stem cells appear to have the healing potential of embryonic stem cells without the controversy, but when given to mice, they didn’t survive the immune response.

An ambitious six-year effort to gauge the rate of childhood autism in a middle-class South Korean city has yielded a figure that stunned experts and is likely to influence the way the disorder’s prevalence is measured around the world, scientists reported on Monday.

Humanity's right-hand dominance might be more than 500,000 years old, new research indicates. The trait of right-handedness is commonly believed to be a sign of the development of another uniquely human trait — language.

The Obama administration can continue using federal tax dollars to fund human embryonic stem cell research, an appeals court ruled on Friday, overturning a judge's decision and handing a victory to the White House.