A bridge with supports that spring back into place after a devastating earthquake could remain usable afterwards - boosting aid efforts and local economies

A repeat of a notorious "torture" experiment - in which people delivered electric shocks to others when ordered - has come to the same disturbing conclusion

Scientists hope to prevent the spread antibiotic resistance in hospitals by stopping the flow of genes between orgy-loving bacteria

Obama's all-star science team is poised to pick up another heavy hitter: John Holdren, a physicist who specialises in energy and the environment

Summer ice at the North Pole has been reaching record lows, now researchers say that a tipping point has been passed

Physicists are surprised to find that military intelligence has been investigating whether elusive gravitational waves could pose a threat to US security

Apple posts a simple fix for installation hangs and some system features are missing.

Killer Peptide May Offer New Therapy Against Influenza A Virus"; "New Vaccine Protects Monkeys from Pneumonic Plague"; and "Natural Immune Response to HIV Not Sufficient to Prevent Secondary Superinfection."

Bioinformatics researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Genentech have developed a new, quicker way to sequence monoclonal antibodies -- a process that is many times faster than the sequencing technology typically used by academic and industry researchers

The initial results of the first computer model that simulates the global atmosphere with a detailed representation of individual clouds have been analyzed by a team of scientists at the International Pacific Research Center at the University of Hawai'i at

On the ground and in the water, an international team of researchers has been collecting imaging data on the Soufriere Hills Volcano in Montserrat to understand the internal structure of the volcano and how and when it erupts.

Future increases in wind strength along the California coast may have far-reaching effects, including more intense upwelling of cold water along the coast early in the season and increased fire danger in Southern California, according to researchers at the Climate

Professor David Gurarie is developing mathematical models to track and analyze symptoms, treatment outcomes and environmental conditions that affect diseases like malaria and schistosomiasis, also known as "snail fever." These models would allow doctors to make predictions towards effective treatment.

The United States could suffer the effects of abrupt climate changes within decades -- sooner than some previously thought -- says a new government report. It contends that seas could rise rapidly if melting of polar ice continues to outrun

Asian Americans are less attached to their racial identity than black Americans. This finding confirms that minority politics in the United States today is more complex than generally realized and that understanding the increasingly multicultural nature of the US requires

A study published by the Journal of the American Medical Association on Dec. 16, 2008 has found that those with type 2 diabetes who had a diet high in low-glycemic foods such as nuts, beans and lentils had greater improvement

Sexual abuse in childhood increases the risk of suicide in men by up to ten times, say researchers from the University of Bath, UK.

Postoperative pain can be reduced. This has been shown by four of the six hospitals which took part in the project for quality improvement in postoperative pain management (QUIPS). Winfried Meissner and his colleagues present QUIPS in the current edition

The old adage that we can only learn how to do something by trying it ourselves may have to be revised in the light of recent discoveries in neuroscience. It turns out that humans, primates, some birds, and possibly other

A national alcohol research group is concerned that the media's misinterpretation of a recent British research study could encourage pregnant women to be more at ease with temperate alcohol consumption. Generally, the adverse effects of light drinking during pregnancy are