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Saving the lives of millions of the world's children means shouting louder about disturbing new statistics

Watch a brain trick that shows how our perception can be skewed in time, giving insight into our sense of self

Iron oxide in the world's oldest sedimentary rocks suggest photosynthesis evolved 370 million years earlier than we thought, not long after life began

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Place finger here for potato chips. These days, fingerprint scanners are used, but not very widely outside of Tom Cruise movies. But a small South Dakota college is doing a trial run of a scanner that has you swipe a fin...

Saturn's frigid moon Titan may be the only world apart from Earth to experience these miniature hurricanes - powered by its methane-ethane lakes

An expert panel advises extending fusion efforts at the huge laser facility in California, but says big changes might be necessary for success

Humans have been doing surgery for 10,000 years, and for most of that time, undergoing a procedure was an immensely painful, high-risk endeavor. But with the rise of advanced techniques in the last 150 years, modern surg...

You know that classic trick of balancing a long object on the chin? These quadrocopters can do that too--in mid-air. "Two of the most challenging problems tackled with quadrocopters so far," says Markus Waibel at Robohub...

On February 8th, the rover Curiosity used its drill to bore a hole into a slab of flat bedrock, marking the first time we have probed deeply into the interior of a Martian rock in search of the secrets of Mars' past it m...

The major recent corporate hackings all have something in common: human error. The good news is that there's an easy fix. When The New York Times announced in January that it had been the target of four months of cyberat...

Watch the first images of brain activity in a fetus in the womb, revealing bridges forming between different regions

The first sample taken by the Curiosity rover should give offer a glimpse into Mars's past, as the newly exposed rock is free of weathering

The SpiderSense suite picks up ultrasonic echoes to tell the wearer how close they are to nearby objects - and lets them navigate without sight

A drug based on tiny antibodies originally found in camels and llamas has proved successful in a small clinical trial against arthritis pain

At one time, squishy invertebrates constituted most of the animal life on Earth, but about half a billion years ago, something remarkable happened: an evolutionary explosion known as the Cambrian Era.

Vancouver, 21 February 2013. The two most mature future particle physics projects, the International Linear Collider (ILC) and the Compact Linear Collider study (CLIC), have formed an official organisational partnership ...