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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised the first computerized method that can analyze a single photograph and determine where in the world the image likely was taken.

Researchers are testing a new way to kill cancer cells selectively by attaching cancer-seeking antibodies to tiny carbon tubes that heat up when exposed to near-infrared light.

For more than 400 years, astronomers have studied the sun from afar. Now NASA has decided to go there.

European astronomers have announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets.

Drink coffee to send a wake-up call to the brain? Or just smell its rich, warm aroma? An international group of scientists is reporting some of the first evidence that simply inhaling coffee aroma alters the activity of genes in the brain.

University of Queensland research is uncovering the truth behind the largest marsupial ever to walk the earth – the 2.5 tonne wombat-like Diprotodon.

New research suggests that how often Old Faithful and other Yellowstone geysers erupt may depend on annual rainfall patterns.

A synthetic chemical based on a compound found in cocoa beans slowed growth and accelerated destruction of human tumors in laboratory studies, and should be tested further for cancer chemoprevention or even treatment.

Less than a week after Los Alamos Laboratory's Roadrunner supercomputer began operating at world-record petaflop-per-second data-processing speeds, researchers are already using the computer to mimic extremely complex neurological processes.

Palaeontologists from the US, Argentina and Australia identifiy a fossil that had previously only been found in South America.