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 The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has shown that other things besides Grumpy Cats and silly dance videos can go viral – even charitable giving. And while some questioned if having people dumping buckets of ice on their he...

It's too early to define any human being by his disability alone, as proven by this man born with head upside down. Suffering from congenital arthrogryposis disease, he proved that anything is possible.

A boy born with hydranencephaly, a condition characterized by lack of both cerebral hemispheres, died on August 25 after living for 12 years without a brain.

At IFA 2013, Sony launched the lens-style camera, a quirky photography device that's incredibly forward-looking. The lens-style camera makes perfect sense if you think about it. In the pursuit of portability, it makes se...

A girl in Canada experienced an unusual allergic reaction to blueberry pie -- she was not allergic to any of the pie's ingredients, but instead reacted to antibiotic residue in the food.

(Binghamton University) The National Institutes of Health has awarded a five-year grant in the amount of $8.2 million to the SUNY Research Foundation in support of the Developmental Exposure Alcohol Research Center, an a...

Hovering somewhere between 205 and 255 miles above Earth is the International Space Station, currently housing six intrepid explorers that are hurdling through space at roughly 4,800 miles per seconds. And one of those i...

Green stuff is going to grow towards the sun. When your at-home plants start edging their way to the window, it's a good idea to rotate them once-a-week-ish to keep leaves, stems, and tendrils from becoming crazy lopside...

Although cardiac pacemakers have saved countless lives, they do have at least one shortcoming - like other electronic devices, their batteries wear out. When this happens, of course, surgery is required in order to repla...

Sony's SmartWatch 3 boasts a powerful 1.2-GHz processor and harnesses the flexibility of the Android Wear platform, unlike previous entries in the line. Alongside the debut of the SmartWatch 3, Sony unveiled an e-ink fit...

Tesla plans a $5 billion gigafactory to produce battery packs for as many as 500,000 cars by 2020. How the project is coming together.

Now just 3 weeks and 4 million miles (6 million kilometers) from rendezvous with Mars, NASA's ground breaking Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter is tracking precisely on course for the crucial Mars Or...

I said last month that I was going to try to say out of Ebola news because so much is being written about it elsewhere. Since then, the African outbreak — now really an epidemic, since it is in multiple countries – ...

The hacking of celebrity accounts and the theft of explicit photos of a number of female stars has become even more serious, with word that at least one of the women was underage when the leaked pictures were taken. Seve...

Apple has reportedly agreed to lower the price of its Wi-Fi-only 16GB iPad mini that's usually priced at $299 in order to counter slower iPad sales this quarter. Digitimes says that the iPad maker has recently "cooperate...

Zelda Williams, the 25-year-old daughter of the late actor Robin Williams, publicly said she was deleting Twitter from her devices last month after becoming victim to a deluge of abusive comments in the days following he...

By now you've heard about the massive cache of nude photos that internet scumbags stole from a number of female celebrities. Now, researchers are learning more about how the perv-hackers may have done it: using a passwor...

Apple, it's said, will finally take the plunge into large-screen phones next week with the unveiling of both a 4.7- and a 5.5-inch iPhone at its event in Cupertino, California. If you're not sure why, you only have to lo...

[From GadgeTell] Of the myriad of unannounced Motorola gadgets making the rumor rounds lately, Moto G's sequel looks to hold the fewest secrets, and the so-called "Shamu" is hands down the biggest question mark.

The astronauts of the ISS capture Earth as you've never seen it

Sleep difficulties may be linked to faster rates of decline in brain volume, according to a study. "It is not yet known whether poor sleep quality is a cause or consequence of changes in brain structure," said a study au...

Wild marmosets that watched a video -- a short flick of a marmoset opening a box to get a banana slice -- are likely to copy the what they saw in the video and open the box themselves, a new study finds.