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Can Self-Medication Help Treat Disease?

By R. Siva Kumar - May 18, 2015 03:40 PM EDT

Blood pressure patients are not advised to prescribe their own treatments, but on the other hand, they should monitor their own progress after visiting doctors.

Giant Squid With 7-Inch Eye Washes Ashore in New Zealand

By Peter R - May 18, 2015 01:57 PM EDT

It is not know what killed the squid but researchers have ruled out starvation.

Housing Ideas Anyone? NASA Is Offering $ 2.8 Million If You Can 3D Print Homes On Mars

By Peter R - May 18, 2015 09:38 AM EDT

3D-Printed Habitat Challenge has called for concept ideas that can be 3D printed. In the final phase, competitors will have to develop fabrication technology and 3D print houses.

Researchers Find Rarest Quartet of Quasars In Close Proximity For The First Time

By Kamal Nayan - May 18, 2015 04:16 AM EDT

Researchers have found a quartet of quasars in the close proximity for the first time. Quasars are extremely rare, separated by hundreds of millions of light-years.

Scientists Discover Origins of Chinook Salmons By Tracking Bone in the Inner Ear

By Staff Reporter - May 18, 2015 12:53 AM EDT

Researchers have developed a technique that makes it possible to trace the birthplace of Chinook salmon and learn about where the fish originated and where they spent their lives in the ocean.

Revolutionary Cancer Update: Sharks Can Cure You

By R. Siva Kumar - May 17, 2015 02:23 PM EDT

Sharks look evil and would like to eat you, but they can also help you to fight cancer, according to new research.

Maybe Your Curtains Are Making You Fat!

By R. Siva Kumar - May 17, 2015 02:26 PM EDT

If you don't block out light, you are disturbing your inner biological rhythm, which is lowering your metabolism, and making you fat.

Higgs Boson Article from LHC Has 5,000 Authors!

By Peter R - May 17, 2015 02:27 PM EDT

The article published in the journal Physical Review Letters was a challenge for the journal's editors.

Approaching Collapse of 10,000-year-old Antarctic Ice Shelf to Cause Massive Flooding

By R. Siva Kumar - May 16, 2015 03:21 PM EDT

NASA scientists have discovered that an ice shelf in Antarctica is melting rapidly and one block of ice may vanish in just a decade.

Fingerprints Reveal History of Drug Abuse, Study

By R. Siva Kumar - May 16, 2015 03:10 PM EDT

One simple fingerprint test can reveal whether a person has put his finger on drugs or not.

NASA: One Of The Largest Ice Shelves Of Antarctic May Collapse By 2020

By Kamal Nayan - May 16, 2015 05:26 AM EDT

One of the largest ice shelves of Antarctica is melting beneath and above the sea, according to a new research. The ice shelf partly folded in 2002, is certain to disintegrate utterances by 2020.

40 Percent of Honeybees Died Last Year, Survey Shows

By Kamal Nayan - May 16, 2015 04:53 AM EDT

More than 40 percent of honeybee hives died this past year, according to a recent survey. The number is preliminary, but is the second-highest annual loss recorded to date.

Intimacy of Four Massive Black Holes and Quasars Quartet 10 Billion Years Ago, Stuns Astronomers

By Peter R - May 16, 2015 05:07 AM EDT

The quartet was found engulfed in a massive nebula of cold and dense gas, surprising astronomers who spotted the objects.

'Girl Next Door' Transformed Into Cruel 'Maneater' After Handsome Male Rejection, Love Study

By Cheri Cheng - May 15, 2015 03:29 PM EDT

According to a new study, researchers found that women who get turned down by handsome men are more likely to be cruel to other men.

First Warm-Blooded Fish Species "Opah" Discovered [Video]

By Ashwin Subramania - May 15, 2015 07:53 AM EDT

Researchers have for the first time discovered a fully warm blooded fish, which has heated blood circulating through its body, similar to birds and mammals.

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