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The anti-aging supplement industry is valued at many billions of dollars, with North America offering the largest market worldwide. Through clever marketing, many such supplements have promised consumers everything from halting to reversing the…

This story originally appeared Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

For the last two decades, homeowners have been able to claim thousands of dollars in federal tax credits to help offset the high up-front costs of going solar….

Penguins might be doing more for the planet than we thought when it comes to fighting climate change. According to new research, the clouds around Antarctica could be fueled by penguin poop.

Scientists have found that penguin guano…

Cognitive decline is often seen as an unavoidable part of getting older. But new research suggests that it may not be as permanent as we once believed. A team of scientists from Brazil has identified a molecule in the brain that appears…

Worms are decomposers. Many survive by breaking down dead things — dead bacteria, dead plants, dead animals, dead anything. So, they must be accustomed to the stench of death. Not so, a new study suggests — not when the dead organism is…

So many unexplored secrets still lie at the outskirts of our solar system, where a potential candidate for a new dwarf planet lies. Although space beyond Neptune was thought to be mostly devoid of large objects, researchers are beginning to…

The idea of using the body’s own organs as mini bioreactors to grow replacement tissue or even regenerate other organs might sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but it’s already becoming reality in cutting-edge labs around the…

Researchers have formally identified a group of elasmosaur fossils — some of the most famous in North America. The marine reptile, Traskasaura sandrae, a type of plesiosaur, has been added to a new and “very odd” genus which is unlike…

A World War I submarine wreck off the…

Getting to Mars has always been a game of patience. With current propulsion technology, even the fastest missions take around seven to nine months. But a British company says it’s found a way to cut that time in half, or more.

Pulsar…