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Researchers at the University of British Columbia searching for ways to slow the deterioration of blood vessels may have stumbled on to the key to youthful skin. The findings, published last week in Aging Cell, raises hope for a drug that would block the activity of Granzyme B in certain places, and thus prevent the aging and deterioration of tissues that …

Monster Star Merger Could Create Massive Mega-Star, A study of “MY Camelopardalis” binary system, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, shows that the most massive stars are made up by merging with other smaller stars, as predicted by theoretical models.

Scientists from the University of Calgary say they now have the tools and base of information to move towards reversing hair loss. Jeff Biernaskie’s research findings, published this week in the scientific journal Developmental Cell, identify the existence of a skin (dermal) stem cell in adult hair follicles that may one day be targeted to stimulate new hair growth after …

Hummingbirds are known for their ability to flit and fly, hovering in place before darting away to a different location. Now, researchers have taken a closer look at a hummingbird’s ability to hover and have found that it hinges on the fact that the tiny bird has a completely stationary visual field.

Vaccinating teenage girls against the human papilloma virus does not impact their sexual behavior, according to a recent study from Queen’s University.

More than 4,500 years ago, a Siberian man succumbed to a scourge all too familiar to modern humans, a disease that left telltale signs on his bones for Angela Lieverse and her colleagues to read and diagnose.

540000-year-old shell carvings may be human ancestor’s oldest art, The human ancestor Homo erectus used freshwater mussel shells tools as far back as half a million years ago and even carved decorative engravings, new findings revealed.

Mastodons were once believed to have roamed the snowy Arctic region alongside the first human colonists some 13,000 to 14,000 years ago, but new evidence suggests they disappeared tens of thousands of years earlier and were not hunted to extinction.

Two scientists writing in the Nov. 27 issue of Science are cautioning that social scientists using data from social media like Twitter and Facebook are frequently getting biased results.

Global warming is reshaping the Arctic so fast that a quarter of the world’s polar bear population is likely to be in serious trouble by the end of the century.

‘Star-Gazing’ Shrimp Discovered in South Africa, a tiny shrimp with banded, stalked eyes, and gaudy red ‘warning’ colouring, is the latest of several new marine species to be found by UCT researchers in the extensively sampled waters of False Bay.