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The Obama administration wants to open financial data to more spy agencies than ever before. Reuters has obtained a Treasury Department document that details giving intelligence agencies more access to financial informat...

To make the most precise measurement yet of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) - the remnant radiation from the big bang - the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Planck satellite mission has been collecting trillions of ...

A small group of adults given rapid drug treatment after HIV infection no longer need drugs to keep the virus in check

NBC's Today Show provided a little insight today about how mobile has changed society with a comparison of two images from St. Peter's Square: the announcement of Pope Benedict in 2005 and Pope Francis in 2013. At a cele...

For that crispy, crunchy audio In 1921, two scientists made the first modern loudspeaker out of magnets, wire, and paper. Now manufacturers use synthetic fibers and even ferrofluid. Why stop there? Your kitchen contains ...

Invasive ant species have powerful—and poorly known—effects on a region's soil.

Wolves are large carnivores -- the largest member of the dog, or Canid, family. Wolves are common to all parts of the Northern Hemisphere.

Pouring now on Kickstarter Ordering mixed drinks can be a crapshoot sometimes. Is that whiskey sour going to be the same from place to place? More importantly, are the proportions going to be right? Well, worry no more! ...

Just by taking aspirin twice a week women can signficantly reduce their risk of melanoma, the most dangerous kind of skin cancer

Evidence is mounting that primitive birds initially evolved flight using four wings

With a new pair of stylish shades, people with colorblindness are beginning to see the world just as the rest of us do.

Unlike other gesture control devices that rely on positioning through camera tracking, the MYO armband senses electrical activity in the muscles that control hand and finger motions. Its worn on the forearm and flexing o...

Google Reader is dead. Sad face. Here's what to use instead. Google just announced that it's killing Google Reader, the company's popular RSS-reading web application, despite the fact that it's far more popular than the ...

Bald eagles, besides being majestic and graceful and standing for freedom and all that, have a pretty cool trick: they can scoop fish straight out of the water. Flying low, they extend their talons and grab the fish from...

Futuristic planes with glowing wings, super-efficient wind turbines, greener cars… can a coat of ionised gas deliver all this magic? (full text available to subscribers)

It's fishmageddon at Rio's Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, where low oxygen levels have killed thousands of fish days before an Olympic rowing qualifier race

An Expert Opinion: Frances Seymour The former Director General at the Center for International Forestry Research, Frances Seymour has been a world leader in the effort to understand and address the impacts of tropical de...

To nobody's surprise, the Veronica Mars movie has continued to attract the interest of everyone with good taste in plucky teenage detectives and has been earning massive amounts of cash on Kickstarter all through the nig...

Drones with arms and legs will be able to help out with tasks like bridge repair, pruning trees and using hand tools

Employing Google's new toy to improve wheelchair control sounds like the least silly way to use $1,500 nerdwear. When Google launched their #ifihadglass campaign asking users to apply for early access to the augmented re...

Pluto's known family of moons may have just increased

Breast milk could give a plentiful supply of embryonic-like stem cells for treating Alzheimer's or repairing damaged hearts