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For sweaty people, summertime can be a nightmare The perfect storm of summer conditions can turn vacation season into three months of sweaty hell pretty quickly if you aren't careful. See also: 12 surprising things to av...

The nearly four-hour outage at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday was caused by a problem in a software update installed Tuesday evening, the exchange said in a message to customers.

Automobiles have made great strides in recent years in becoming cleaner and greener, but according to Divergent Microfactories, they still have miles to go. The problem, as the company sees it, is that while powertrains ...

A squishy, explosively-bouncing robot might herald the next age of 'bot design and could almost be a robo-squid, if only it had a beak. 3D printed robots aren't new, but this is the first time graduated layers of hardnes...

The microbiota is involved in many mechanisms, including digestion, vitamin synthesis and host defense. It is well established that a loss of bacterial symbionts promotes the development of allergies. Scientists have suc...

Five billion years ago, a great disturbance rocked a region near the monster black hole at the center of galaxy 3C 279. On June 14, the pulse of high-energy light produced by this event finally arrived at Earth, setting ...

The “bullet time” effect popularized by the 1999 film The Matrix is generally done by arranging a large number of still cameras on a circular track, so most of the rigs out there cost quite a bit of money to put toge...

"If it's not an iPhone," Apple's latest advert for its smartphone points out, "it's not an iPhone." That might be a pretty obvious statement - infamous mimicry notwithstanding - but it comes with a bold statistic. Accord...

A teenager in British Columbia, imprisoned since December 2014, was sentenced to 16 months in jail and eight months of community supervision yesterday after admitting to a rash of swattings, threats and other abuses acro...

 Facebook told businesses to buy Page Likes for years, saying that’s how they could reach people through the News Feed. But over time, a natural increase in competition for space in the feed plus increased restriction...

Every person given a government background check for the last 15 years was probably affected, the Office of Personnel Management said.

A type of bacteria called Bacteroides -- which is one of the most common microbes in the human gut -- can be easily "hacked," or genetically modified, researchers say.

"Staingate" is yet another issue that Apple has to deal with, and this particular "gate" concerns the Retina MacBook Pro. More than 2,500 people have been affected by the issue, according to a website dedicated to Staing...

Brace yourselves, '80s kids. You can now experience KITT, the in-car personal assistant from Knight Rider, in your own car, with this new Knight Rider-themed car charger.

One of the wonderful things we’ve been able to do with Galaxy Zoo over the years is to use the same site to classify many different types of images of the sky. These include surveys that come from a range of telescopes...

A cell structure has been discovered that could help scientists understand why some cancers develop. For the first time, a structure called 'the mesh' has been identified which helps to hold together cells. This discover...

The Philae lander communicated with the Rosetta orbiter again between 19:45 and 20:07 CEST on 9 July 2015 and transmitted measurement data from the COmet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by Radiowave Transmission (CONSERT) in...

An acclaimed new book has afforded Bitcoin one of its periodic moments in the spotlight. Digital Gold, by New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper, is, as its US subtitle puts it, "The Inside Story of the Misfits and Mil...

If you love a good explainer, you'll love SciShow, a prolific YouTube channel (nearly 700 videos) that tackle science and technology questions in bite-sized primers, usually around three minutes long. Here are a few to j...

Hoping to build the confidence of children living with a missing limb, Carlos Arturo Torres Tovar, of Umeå University in Sweden, has designed a prosthetic arm that's compatible with Lego so kids can swap its gripping at...

The properties of water are altered by near-infrared light, which could drive the energy-producing mitochondria in our cells to work harder and heal us faster

Just a compilation of babies' poo faces in slow motion and... well if you're a parent this may make you giggle.