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"What goes up must come down," the old saying goes. Under the right circumstances, this applies even to the entire Milky Way, with spectacular consequences.

According to a new report out of Bloomberg, Apple is working to develop wireless charging technology that could make its way into an iPhone by 2017. The report claims that Apple is working in conjunction with partners in...

It seems that a new kind of machine-learning algorithm that works in tandem with social media and remote sensing, has managed to successfully identify flooded areas, all without the need to fall back on the use of satell...

A group of researchers proved that more exercise does not equate to greater weight loss. Scientific research shows that more time at the gym makes a person's body burn less calories.

Last year we reported on a concept plane called the Skreemr. According to its creators Ray Mattison and Charles Bombardier, the jet would be able to travel from New York to London in 30 minutes, meaning that traveling be...

A few years ago, audiences were preoccupied with seeing Rihanna as a victim — an identity she was never comfortable with — and eventually as a "bad" victim when (like many victims) she found it hard to make a clean b...

Venmo, the PayPal operated peer-to-peer payment app, announced its new Pay with Venmo program that allows users to make purchases directly in merchant's apps.

It looks like Google's self-driving cars could see action in another quartet of US cities some time later this year, at least according to a filing at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Apparently, a certain Ch...

This week, a new startup, Starry, announced it would bring gigabit-speed internet access to consumers, without data caps, at a price that is equal or less than your average broadband plan. It also announced that it would...

Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), headed by Julián Carrera, Maria Eugenia Suárez-Ojeda and Julio Pérez, will coordinate a project within the European Union's LIFE programme to explore the ...

You might not be familiar with Parse, but you no doubt make use of it every day. Facebook is shuttering the service and that means a lot of apps will either have to reinvent the wheel or shut down.∞ Read this on The Lo...

Origami, the ancient art of paper folding, may soon provide a foundation for antennas that can reconfigure themselves to operate at different frequencies, microfluidic devices whose properties can change in operation -- ...

A new photo of Pluto's atmosphere makes the invisible visible.  The new image, taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in July, shows the blue ring of the dwarf planet's atmosphere as it would appear in the infrared —...

The virus has infected millions of people in the Americas, but its effects are still unclear, and a cure is not yet on the horizon.

Researchers in China have successfully bred macaque monkeys exhibiting symptoms associated with autism. Their work resulted in a superior animal model for the condition that can help further more research.

Even with a three-year lifespan, the Nokia Lumia 520 is still the most widely-used Windows Phone handset in the world. Its low price tag certainly seems central to the phone's success. The post The three-year-old Nokia L...

A new report from the World Health Organization and UNICEF found that breastfeeding provided a number of benefits to both mothers and children. Researchers discovered that the practice can help prevent 800,000 child deat...

Following a massive overnight growth in stock, Mark Zuckerberg has beaten out the Koch Brothers on the "rich list," with a net worth of $47 billion, making him the sixth wealthiest person on the planet. The post Mark Zuc...

Scientists from the Kurchatov Institute, MIPT, the University of Parma (Italy), Moscow State University, and Saint Petersburg State University have created a neural network based on polymeric memristors - devices that ca...

CHICAGO. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- More than 16 million Americans suffer from coronary artery disease. It develops when a buildup of plaque cuts off blood flow to the heart, causing shortness of breath, chest pain, heart att...

An aircraft designer was able to come up with a supersonic jet concept that can make flying from London to New York in 11 minutes possible. The jet is said to travel at 16,000 mph, thus having the ability to break the so...

The Moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a "planetary embryo" called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and colleagues report....