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(Wiley) A large study from Japan found that cancer patients who died at home tended to live longer than those who died in hospitals.

Names such as "Null," which is also a programming term, may cause problems in online computing systems. The problems are also caused by names that are unusually long, or those that consist of just one character. The post...

Texting and walking never go down well together, but this does not mean that nothing should be done about it. There has been research that texting while moving around can be dangerous, and another study also pointed to t...

A photo taken indoors in less-than-ideal lighting conditions[/caption]Verizon has begun to introduce the most recent Android security update for two of the older flagship smartphones from South Korean conglomerate LG, an...

 Seven rounds of betas weren’t enough — many iOS users are reporting on Apple’s support forums that a bug is affecting their devices. When they click on links in Safari, Chrome, Mail, Messages, Notes and others, t...

A Swiss scooter company redesigned the funky Isetta as a 21st-century urban dwelling EV. The post Steve Urkel's Isetta Finds Second Life as a Teensy Electric Car appeared first on WIRED.

The successful launch of Europe's first ExoMars mission earlier this month set the stage for a much more ambitious second act: a rover landing on the Red Planet.

This drone prototype will carry precious cargo: an army of insects engineered to wipe out their own kind.

How can we expect technology to improve if a person's health is at stake?

Try to act surprised.

The proton sounds like a simple object, but it's not. Inside, there's a teeming microcosm of quarks and gluons with properties such as spin and "color" charge that contribute to the particle's seemingly simplistic role a...

Supercooled helium acts very similar to the hot interior of a neutron star.

If you've been talking a lot about using Ubuntu Linux away from your PC -- or using a mobile device as your PC -- you now get to put your money where your mouth is. BQ has started taking pre-orders for both the HD and fu...

Facebook apologizes after Safety Check notifications meant for Lahore, Pakistan scare citizens around the world. Angeli Kakade (@angelikakade) has the story.          

Just moments after the Nikon D5 rolled into our office we whisked it into our studio, putting the flagship FX-format DSLR in front of our test scene. We were curious to see exactly what the 20.8MP CMOS sensor is capable...

Mixed reality's tight orchestration of sensors, communications and computing is incredibly difficult, even using the best of today's state-of-the-art technology.

We live in a dramatic epoch of astrophysics. Breakthrough discoveries like exoplanets, gravity waves from merging black holes, or cosmic acceleration seem to arrive every decade, or even more often. But perhaps no discov...

(Rutgers University) Vanishing Arctic sea ice. Dogged weather systems over Greenland. Far-flung surface ice melting on the massive island. These dramatic trends and global sea-level rise are linked, according to a study ...

When people refer to the Nevada, most of the time they would think of Las Vegas, which is the most famous city in the Silver State. Hawthorne? Not too much, as this town with approximately 3,000 inhabitants live a pretty...

According to epigenetics -- the study of inheritable changes in gene expression not directly coded in our DNA -- our life experiences may be passed on to our children and our children's children. Studies on survivors of ...

To provide oncologists a way to detect a single molecule of an enzyme produced by circulating cancer cells, physicists and engineers have developed an optical sensor, based on nanostructured metamaterials, that's 1 milli...

Researchers have successfully directed stem cell-derived neurons to regenerate lost tissue in damaged corticospinal tracts of rats, resulting in functional benefit, a new article reports.