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Despite their potential to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and fuel consumption, electric and hybrid cars and trucks struggled for years to find a solid customer base. Much of the reason came down to cost and conve...

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Human nutritionist says to look past the social media headline when choosing a diet, because you could be missing important information. "Social media is a great way to get information, but people need a filter and to be...

Everything may seem happy and shiny as you flit about the Internet, surfing from Facebook to Netflix, and popping in every now and then to check your email. But just as there are dark alleys in a city, though, there is a...

Gamers never welcome rule changes, unless those rule changes are for the better. If a company says that it won't ban accounts for playing a game early and then changes …

Hackers attacked the personal blog of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles on Sunday and posted what they claim is a ledger showing a balance of some 950,000 bitcoins based on records they obtained from the defunct exchange for the...

New research from Karolinska Institutet and Umeå University in Sweden demonstrates for the first time that there is a close relationship between body perception and the ability to remember. For us to be able to store ne...

The PR battle between Samsung and TSMC is going into high gear over who is making Apple's next-gen processor.

Sony has announced its new flagship handset, the Sony Xperia Z2, at Mobile World Congress 2014 in Barcelona. The new handset lands on 10 April with a 5.2-inch Full HD display, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset a...

(International Rett Syndrome Foundation) The results from Boston Children's Hospital's Phase 1 human clinical trial in Rett syndrome came out today. A team of investigators successfully completed a Phase 1 clinical trial...

As much of the world migrates its movie needs from optical disks to hard drives, a team of chemists from Spain found a new use for a regular old Blu-Ray player. They turned it into a cheap but functional medical device t...

Soon, commercial drones will be flying through our skies. Then, they'll break. Then, Newtonian physics will take over and you'll be wearing a drone as a permanently embedded hat. Then, you'll want to sue somebody.

Even the mildest form of a traumatic brain injury, better known as a concussion, can deal permanent, irreparable damage. Now, an interdisciplinary team of researchers is using mathematical modeling to better understand t...

It has long been known that light exerts powerful effects on the brain and on our well-being. Light is not only required for vision but is also essential for a wide range of "non-visual" functions including synchronizati...

There’s a lot you can learn by just staring at an object, watching how it changes in brightness. This is the technique of photometry, and it has helped astronomers discover variable stars, extrasolar planets, minor pla...

The hunt is on to find biomarkers that detect cancer, but it's a challenging process. Early successes often are followed by heartbreaking failures. But now, researchers have verified that glycans (sugars attached to prot...

A new study shows that the use of cocaine dropped by half across the United States from 2006 to 2010, while use of marijuana jumped by more than 30 percent during the period. Studying illegal drug use nationally from 200...

The Israeli start-up company that develops image identifying technology completes another round of funding

Respawn is experimenting with different resolution upgrades.

Its a good day for people with a T-Mobile Galaxy S4. Earlier today reports started coming in that Magenta had finally rolled out Android 4.4.2 update for last year’s Samsung flagship, and that is indeed true, the carri...

Our favorite vampire-slaying TV show & Joss Whedon production premiered today in 1997. Ah, good ol' Sunnydale: Come for the food, stay for the dismemberment. To celebrate, the Buffy Rewatch 2k14 begins tonight! Starting ...

NASA's Asteroid Data Hunter contest series will offer $35,000 in awards over the next six months to citizen scientists who develop improved algorithms that can be used to identify asteroids.