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It used to be when you went to the doctor's office they would put a thermometer under your tongue and measure your temperature. Then doctors and many moms at home went to ear thermometers that would give temps quicker th...

Pay up or face your patients' wrath. That's how one hacker is trying to shake down U.S. healthcare providers after stealing sensitive data about their patients. TheDarkOverlord claims to have stolen 10 million patient re...

ZipRecruiter now sees itself as a matchmaker          

There are some great new features in the latest version for iOS including: Quick Selection Tool - this is an awesome and super accurate new selection tool that lets you swipe over areas to select them. Magnetic Selection...

Most Android users will never have to deal with malware apps on their devices, or at least not as long as they don't download potentially malicious apps from third-party app stores. But there are people who can't get app...

The move avoids the long and costly effort of testing on hundreds or thousands of devices. One of the big challenges for Android app developers is the fact that there are just so many different phones out there using a v...

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Brian Wang at his Next Big Future blog.

On July 20, 1976, the Viking 1 Lander became the first spacecraft to safely touch down on the surface of Mars. brought Mars to life and set the stage for years of Martian exploration.

One is likely 10 percent warmer than Earth, the other 6 percent cooler --

MIT physicists have found that subatomic particles called neutrinos can be in superposition, without individual identities, when traveling hundreds of miles. Their results, to be published later this month in Physical Re...

In the world of quantum, infinitesimally small particles, weird and often logic-defying behaviors abound. Perhaps the strangest of these is the idea of superposition, in which objects can exist simultaneously in two or m...

(Université Laval) Université Laval's Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) and Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval (CHU) are proud to announce that the first clinical study for a Zika vaccine i...

A new global study has identified 10 leading risk factors for stroke, and has determined that the vast majority of them are preventable.

Two astronomers -- with the help of Twitter -- have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies within the central bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory News and Features:

Traveling about 250 miles over Chile near the city of Santiago, the unpiloted ISS Progress 64 Russian cargo ship docked at 8:20 p.m. EDT to the Pirs Docking Compartment of the International Space Station....

Square Kilometer Array: The Square Kilometre Array, the world's largest radio telescope when built and which has its headquarters at Jodrell Bank near Manchester, will be heavily featured as part of the EuroScience Open ...

Going into space comes with its share of risks. In addition to the possibility of a catastrophic failure happening during take-off or landing, and having your craft pinholed by a micrometeorite, there are also the danger...

A new anti-smuggling initiative set to debut in Iran later this week could result in an effective iPhone ban until Apple agrees to officially do business in the country as a registered entity, local reports say.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was commanded to roll 360 degrees on one axis. The maneuver was performed in 7 hours and time-lapsed here. It's done to take 'precise measurements of the solar limb' according to t...

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center:

"It shows that the myth of a highly secure jihadi underground, is exactly that: It's a myth."