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Last week Facebook revealed that it had manipulated the news feeds of over half a million randomly selected users to change the number of positive and negative posts they saw.

He's not a physicist, he's a very naughty boy Renowned physicist and boffin of the highest order Stephen Hawking is to join famous '70s British surrealist comedy group Monty Python on stage in the comedians' first live s...

The CDC is investigating if the anthrax bacteria sent to laboratories were inactivated. Scientists and staff are feared to have been exposed to the deadly bacteria.

A Facebook researcher behind a controversial psychology experiment on users has defended the research, saying it was aimed at looking into a common concern that seeing friends post positive content on the social networki...

World's second-most-repressive regime for internet access welcomes lecture on freedom Nixon in China it may not be, but Google's chairman Eric Schmidt has reportedly visited Cuba....

Witness a man being born again as a huge stray rock--ejected from the explosive demolition of a clothing factory in Czech Republic--swooshes right by his head. A few inches closer and he would have been instantly killed....

  Artist, photographer and baker extraordinaire Christine McConnell served up this delicious series of baked nightmares; from alien waffle cones to cookie monsters and the most metal cake you will ever see. The fantasti...

Não, obrigado... Hope Brazilians are too distracted by footie to notice Google is killing Orkut, the company's first social networking product, which remains popular in Brazil and India....

An international group of students came together on Saturday to compete in an annual underwater robot competition, showing off their robots' abilities to identify shipwrecks and collect microbial samples. The post Winner...

Don't worry, it's more aerodynamic that way.

Transplanting mesenchymal stem cells along with blood vessel-forming cells naturally found in circulation improves transplantation results, researchers report. The research has immediate translational implications, as cu...

By confining colonies of human embryonic stem cells to tiny circular patterns on glass plates, researchers have for the first time coaxed them into organizing themselves just as they would under natural conditions.

The precise molecular mechanism that may trigger elevated neuronal activity in Alzheimer's patients has been pinpointed by researchers. This mechanism subsequently damages memory and learning functions. With the understa...

The unseen effects that can occur as a result of a blast injury have been studied by researchers who have concluded that the shock wave alone created by an IED, even in the absence of shrapnel or other particles, can cau...

An imaging technology more powerful than anything that has existed before, and is fast enough to observe life processes as they actually happen at the molecular level, has been created by scientists. This technology will...

Malnutrition during childhood is associated with higher diastolic blood pressure, higher resistance to blood flow, and poor heart function during adulthood, research shows. Additionally, inadequate nutrition before birth...

An infection with malaria pathogens changes the scent of infected mice, making those infected more attractive to mosquitoes, according to a new study. Researchers show that whether mosquitoes find the right victim to bit...

The evolution of the ribosome, a large molecular structure found in the cells of all species, has been revealed in unprecedented detail in a new study.

People with HIV who are diagnosed with cancer are two to four times more likely to go untreated for their cancer compared to uninfected cancer patients, according to a new, large retrospective study. Life expectancy for ...

Teens who sex text more are likely to be having sex, as are teens who just send a bucket load of no-sex texts every day, claims new research. What's under debate is whether sex text is a risk behavior or digital teen fli...

Surgical resection markedly improves survival among metastatic melanoma patients whose disease is isolated to a few areas in the liver, according to a new study. The bottom line, according the researchers, is that surgeo...

The popular idea that northern Europeans developed light skin to absorb more UV light so they could make more vitamin D -- vital for healthy bones and immune function -- is questioned by researchers in a new study. Rampi...