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A family frozen in time by the volcanic inundation of Pompeii appear in a new exhibition at the British Museum

Terrible news! For baby mice. Call it a bureaucratic coincidence. The same day the Government Accountability Office called for stricter standards at biological threat defense labs, a biodefense lab in Galveston, Texas, l...

A new study demonstrates how easy it is to identify people from the location-tracking data on their cellphones. Just a few data points from a location-tracking cellphone are enough to identify most people, a new study fo...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking, is a drilling technique used for extracting oil or natural gas from deep underground.

Using cardiac cells as a motor. "Our miniature bio-bot is made of a flexible polymer and living heart cells. The cells beat together, creating a contracting and releasing motion that inches the bot forward. We use a 3-D ...

Dozens of gene variants that raise the risk of breast, prostate and ovarian cancer have been identified, but applying this knowledge could be tricky

Mice can be made to lose weight with no change in diet – simply by giving them a sample of gut microbes from rodents that have had gastric bypass surgery

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Indoor mapping is the future, and this sounds cool. Having done a bang-up job with its own regular mapping app (oh wait), Apple has, according to the New York Times, acquired an indoor mapping company. Indoor maps are pr...

An artificial intelligence scans spiders' webs to determine which species are in the area. Spiders' webs are unique from species to species, so something like this giant cave spider and this decoy-building spider can be ...

The OPERA international experiment at the INFN Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy) has observed a third neutrino tau candidate from "flavour" oscillation. The "muon-type" neutrino produced at CERN in Geneva arrived at the Gran...

-- Physicists Measure Magnetic Moment of Single Antimatter Particle -- The search for dark matter continues under the Northern Hills -- Higgs physics on the cheap -- Italians see third 'shape-shifting' neutrino -- Scienc...

East Africa is sitting on a mother lode of geothermal energy. Could volcanoes be the key to tapping it? (full text available to subscribers)

A next generation version of a salamander-like bot that has four legs and an actuated spine was recently unveiled. The Salamandra Robotica II is faster and more robust than the previous version, advances that came as the...

When social networks and location apps collide, you can suddenly ask people anywhere what's happening where they are. What will you want to know?

Who's going to be crowned the greatest bot in all the internet? Vote now! The poll closes Friday, March 29, at 9 a.m. Welcome to the final round of the world's nerdiest bracket! To recap: we've compiled a list of some of...

A Raytheon Project wants pilots to hear missiles better so that they can avoid them. Directional sound is awesome. Long a feature of cinema and state-of-the-art home entertainment systems, directional sound uses several ...

An artificially intelligent cobweb recognition system is the perfect way to quickly and easily measure spider biodiversity

Anil Ananthaswamy watches a brain surgeon implanting electrodes inside the skull of a person with epilepsy to pinpoint where his seizures start

A new scoring system that rates biological components according to how reliable they are should let bioengineers mass-produce living machines