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Google Now is smart, but it still needs a little help sometimes.

Who could have predicted that strong-arming ISPs into hastily implementing content filters intended to stamp out pornography would be a disaster? Well actually, pretty much everyone could except for the architects of the...

The music industry just can’t win. TorrentFreak reports that less than 24 hours after Argentina implemented a new blockade for The Pirate Bay following complaints from the music industry’s Argentine Chamber of Phonog...

Federal regulators have green-lighted a new use for Allergan's Ozurdex. The biodegradable eye implant can now be used by patients with Diabetic macular edema, a condition that affects over 560,000 in the U.S.

Intervention during someone's teenage years is frequently the key to preventing alcohol abuse in adult life. It's good to know, then, that a group of scientists has found a way to predict that abuse at an early age using...

Mention biocontrol and people think of the cane toad catastrophe. But a sap-sucking bug could be the only way to win the war against the world's worst weed (full text available to subscribers)

Thanks, great great great great great great great great great great great great grandad RESEARCHERS have known for a while that many people alive today carry genes from human species other than Homo sapiens--the result o...

Ancient Japanese gold leaf artists were truly masters of their craft. An analysis of six ancient Namban paper screens show that these artifacts are gilded with gold leaf that was hand-beaten to the nanometer scale. Study...

Among other things, Google Play Services 5.0, a new software update, aims to help developers easily make the transition to wearable-friendly apps.

Force punch is no longer just for video games. The iPunch smart combat gloves measure your punching power.

At this year's Fourth of July party, blow your guests' minds harder than a Yonshakudama firework with a watermelon that splits to reveal a jiggly Jell-O core. All of the vodka and flavor, none of the seeds.

Like a line of falling dominos, a cascade of molecular events in the bone marrow produces high levels of inflammation that disrupt normal blood formation and lead to potentially deadly disorders including leukemia, a res...

Anecdotal information on patients with both Alzheimer's disease and cerebrovascular disease have been confirmed by researchers using mouse models in two different studies. The findings, which found elevated levels of hom...

The mobile phone maker HTC experiences a healthy profit thanks to a new handset and internal cost-cutting measures. The company's quarterly report shows strong gains.

A breakthrough discovery into how living cells process and respond to chemical information could help advance the development of treatments for a large number of cancers and other cellular disorders that have been resist...

Scientists have discovered a new way by which metabolism is linked to the regulation of DNA, the basis of our genetic code. The findings may have important implications for the understanding of many common diseases, incl...

Researchers have discovered that an enzyme involved in intracellular signaling plays a crucial role in developing metabolic syndrome, a finding that has a spinoff company developing a drug to potentially treat the condit...

Researchers have developed an economical, reliable and heavy metal-free chemical reaction that yields fully functional 1,2,3-triazoles. Triazoles are chemical compounds that can be used as building blocks for more comple...

DNA -- the carrier of genetic information -- is constantly threatened by damage originating from exogenous and endogenous sources. Very special DNA lesions are DNA-protein crosslinks -- proteins covalently linked to DNA....

A third of the global population is infected with the bacterial pathogen that causes tuberculosis. Most carriers control the infection and are asymptomatic, but severe forms of the disease kill over a million people ever...

Participants between the ages of 11 and 36 received either the two drugs or a placebo while continuing their insulin injections. The group receiving the drugs did not experience an improvement in insulin production, but ...

Unintentional injury, suicide, and homicide end more lives by age 30 in the U.S. than any other cause, and infectious disease remains a challenge for the nation as well, study says.