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In a remarkable act of life preservation, surgeons were able to keep a critically ill man alive for 48 hours without a pair of lungs, while he waited for a double lung transplant – a radical approach ...

Iguanas stunned by cold temperatures dropped from trees in usually balmy Florida on Sunday as icy conditions blasted southern US states, dumping nearly a half-meter of snow in some areas and whipping ...

An investigation by researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in the US has filled in a missing link between the toxic build-up of proteins in the neurodegenerative condition ...

But as a professor of religious studies who has spent years examining how mindfulness is defined and practiced across different traditions and historical periods, I've noticed a surprising problem ...

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of ...

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Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded ...

This week in science: how eating meat could be associated with a longer life; a switch for fat cell production; how space ...

A miscarriage can occur for a variety of reasons, but chromosomal abnormalities are a common factor. About half of all known miscarriages in the first or second trimester result from fetuses ...