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Sometimes you just can't resist a tiny piece of chocolate cake. Even the most health-conscious eaters find themselves indulging in junk foods from time to time

University of Liège researchers have demonstrated that the physiological mechanisms triggered during NDE lead to a more vivid perception not only of imagined events in the history of an individual but also of real events

Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, 5 foot 7 inches in length and weighing 170 pounds

A new look at conditions after a Manhattan-sized asteroid slammed into a region of Mexico in the dinosaur days indicates the event could have triggered a global firestorm that would have burned every twig, bush and tree on Earth and led to the extinction

Placodonts were among the first marine reptiles. With their trademark crushing teeth, they fed on shellfish and crustaceans

Researchers might have found the Holy Grail in the war against cancer, a miracle drug that has killed every kind of cancer tumor it has come in contact with

Up until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been fairly bulky contraptions -- an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications

Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria

The field of cell therapy, which aims to form new cells in the body in order to cure disease, has taken another important step in the development towards new treatments

An international team of plasma physicists has used one of the world's most powerful lasers to create highly unusual plasma composed of hollow atoms