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We live in a day and age where electricity rules. This of course is not a bad thing; for one I wouldn't be here writing this review if it were not for the buzzy stuff flowing through cables everywhere. Electricity also m...

If ever there was a game seemingly designed to be played on a smartphone, it's Minit.

Wisdom teeth seem like a biological mishap. Our third and final set of molars to grow, wisdom teeth don't quite fit in many people's mouths, leading to millions of surgeries per year. But in some people, these "extra" te...

Researchers have developed a computational model for human MEK1, a protein with potential as a drug target for a variety of human cancers. This insight into the previously unknown structure of MEK1 opens the door to the ...

A security vulnerability in the Intel processors on Razer laptops was first discovered by a security expert in late March. That could mean that hackers would be able to implant malware and cause harm to affected systems....

In what has become a depressingly common refrain for the social network behemoth, Facebook user data has once again been left exposed to the public. According to researchers at security firm UpGuard, the first of the two...

A study led by ICFO researchers reports on a highly sensitive CMOS-compatible broadband photodetector by tailoring material defects.

The US faces a public health crisis as the opioid epidemic fuels growing rates of certain infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, heart infections, and skin and soft tissue infections. Infectious disease and ...

We're counting the days until Game of Thrones returns to HBO, which means the stars of the show are already out promoting season 8. We've already seen several cast members touring the morning and late night shows, and we...

It seems that Apple continues to have battery headaches but this time it isn’t about iPhones. You’d think that considering their size, Apple Watch batteries would have very little problems other than having to be rec...

When mankind eventually makes it to Mars, it's going to be a momentous achievement, but the travelers who first set foot on the Red Planet probably won't be there to stay. Eventually, however, NASA and other scientific g...

Google has released its April 2019 set of security patches for the Android platform, which fixes three Critical vulnerabilities, including two that affect the Media framework component.

Over the past couple of years, YouTube has taken steps to tackle one of the company’s biggest challenges: the rise of toxic content on the platform. Just recently, the company addressed misinformation with products lik...

A new study could significantly improve methods for detecting and diagnosing congenital heart disease in infants and small children. Researchers used vector flow imaging to create detailed images of two three-month-old b...

Living near a protected area can improve aspects of human well-being across the developing world, new research suggests.

Application of sun protection factor (SPF) moisturizers tends to miss more of the face, especially around the eyelid regions, compared with sunscreen application. Moreover, people applying these products are unaware that...

The build-up of abnormally thick mucus and the associated inflammation appear to be the initiating cause of damage to the lungs of children with cystic fibrosis (CF), rather than bacterial infections, according to a new ...

Many facial moisturizers brag about their sun protection abilities. But new research shows that user error is stopping SPF-containing moisturizer from providing much of a defense against the sun's harmful rays. Researche...

Facebook app developers left hundreds of millions of user records exposed on publicly visible cloud servers, researchers from security firm UpGuard said today. The researchers said the larger of the two data sets came fr...

Climate change has contributed to an 89 per cent decrease in the amount of coral replenishing the Great Barrier Reef

Researchers propose fighting hospital infections with matching government subsidies for every dollar a hospital spends on infection control. This incentive could drive down regional rates of healthcare-associated infecti...

Leukemia treatments often leave girls infertile, but a procedure developed by researchers working with mice is a step toward restoring their ability to be biological mothers.