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The video -- a supercomputer simulation created by researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center -- chronicles the growth of a spiral galaxy, beginning with its birth shortly after the Big Bang that created the unive...

Keeping cool in the heat of battle could soon be easier, thanks to a new U.S. Army helmet that has its own built-in air-conditioning system.

The Sims 4 will feature a number of improvements over its predecessors, and chief among them is an insanely deep new character creation mode that gives you an amazing amount of control over your virtual avatar. And devel...

Three crew members of Expedition 39 returned to Earth from the International Space Station, or ISS, on Tuesday after a 188-day stint in space, during which they orbited the planet more than 3,000 times and traveled nearl...

Samsung on Tuesday released a new ad that’s part of its football-themed #Galaxy11 series of commercials that feature well-known football stars, including Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and others, for the purpose of p...

It's hard to top the holy shit news that Antarctica is, as we've long feared, irreversibly melting , but this week's Landscape Reads is chock full of other great stories. Could the difference between rice and wheat farmi...

Meet Galanter & Jones' Evia: It's a heated outdoor lounger made from a single piece of reinforced concrete. It's beautiful, it's awesome, and it was just hand-delivered to the Home of the Future by the brother/sister tea...

Back in August of 2011, I wrote an article entitled Why the iPhone 4S will be Free. As it turned out, the iPhone 4S was not "free" until the release …

(Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore ) Researchers from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore have conducted a new study identifying that the transporter protein Mfsd2a carries DHA to the brain. Their finding...

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome lately appeared in the United States for the first time. Now, two more cases of the deadly virus have been diagnosed in Florida.

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The velvet rope is no more. If you want Google Glass, the sometimes-hard-to-define, next-big-thing from Google, you can now plunk down $1,500 and order a pair. But even if you've really been dying to have Google Glass, y...

US Sen. Al Franken pens a letter to the smartphone maker raising concerns about the security and privacy of users' biometric data.

Moscow delivered a double whammy of bad news to US space programs today by banning the use of Russian made rocket engines for US military national security launches and by declining to prolong cooperation on the Internat...

Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of people with schizophrenia behave strangely in early developmental stages, providing a hint as to w...

Astrophysicists at UC San Diego have measured the minute gravitational distortions in polarized radiation from the early universe and discovered that these ancient microwaves can provide an important cosmological test of...

shared population of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria circulates both in humans and companion animals, according to a study published this week in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the ...

Samsung's latest flagship phone, the Galaxy S5, comes with a built-in heart-rate monitor and a personal wellness app, called S Health, to help users keep track of their fitness. Here are some tips on how to get the most ...

Where did Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos come from? How did they end up in orbit around Mars? This cool video from the folks at Kurzgesagt answers the most-oft asked questions about these mini moons. You should also che...

Of 536 cases reported since 2012, 145 have died.

The detection of a runaway star may explain how a massive object turned into a dense, magnetic magnetar instead of collapsing into a black hole --