A sensitivity to gluten in the diet has been tied to the nerve damage known as neuropathy, and a new study seems to strengthen that link.
The research showed that a gluten-free diet may help reduce nerve pain in some people with gluten sensitivity.
"These findings are exciting because it might...
A newfound species of tardigrade, or "water bear," with tendril-festooned eggs has been discovered in the parking lot of an apartment building in Japan.
The newfound tardigrade, Macrobiotus shonaicus, is the 168th species of this sturdy micro-animal ever discovered in Japan. Tardigrades are famous for their toughness: They can survive...
For more than a year, negotiations over Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s major $8.5 billion expansion of O’Hare International Airport were heating up behind the scenes, and on Wednesday they boiled over into full public view as airline executives and city officials accused each other of not telling the truth about...
Two of the nation’s leading gun sellers, Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods, took steps on Wednesday to limit their sales of firearms, thrusting themselves into the middle of the polarizing national debate over gun control.
Walmart, the biggest gun seller, announced late in the afternoon that it would not sell...
Rockets have been the way to get satellites into orbit since the dawn of the space age. But Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen hopes to shake that up with help from the world’s biggest airplane.
“Stratolaunch” is a 500,000-pound beast with twin fuselages and a wingspan of 385 feet. Allen’s Seattle-based company is...
Three astronauts returned from the International Space Station to the snowy, bitingly cold flat lands of Central Asia, ending a 5 1/2-month mission highlighted by robotic renovations, schoolteacher pep talks and heavenly greetings from Pope Francis.
The two Americans and one Russian landed in a Soyuz capsule shortly after sunrise...
The Moon is hopefully going to get its first mobile network, thanks to European mobile operator Vodafone and equipment firm Nokia.
The companies are working with part-time scientists—that’s actually their name, styled as “PTScientists”—on what they hope will be the first-ever privately funded Moon landing.
The car-maker Audi is another big...
"Magic" mushrooms seem to have passed their genes for mind-altering substances around among distant species as a survival mechanism: By making fungus-eating insects "trip," the bugs become less hungry — and less likely to feast on mushrooms.
That's the upshot of a paper published today (Feb. 27) in the journal...
Scientists at the Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed an artificial eye using adaptive metalens and faux muscles that promise to cure not only blurred vision, but also bring big revolution in camera development and mobile phone photography.
During a recently concluded test,...
Two launch pads at Cape Canaveral could host a pair of satellite launches separated by fewer than 17 hours Thursday, a rapid-fire turnaround made possible by an automated range safety mechanism and other upgrades to cut the time between missions at the Florida spaceport.
A spokesperson for Hispasat, which owns...
