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A camera trained on a person's face can detect their pulse and the interval between heartbeats, which could help identify risk of heart disease

London sure looks pretty--and busy Using data from Plane Finder, which tracks flights in real-time, Alexey Papulovskiy created Contrailz, a beautiful visualization of those flights. Type in a city, airport, or airport co...

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Miss the whole basketball season? Catch up on the Heat, the winners of the NBA finals, with this. The Miami Heat won the NBA Finals this year, which means their road to victory gets extra scrutiny. Catch up on their enti...

Sometimes it's the simplest of explanations that can change your whole perspective...at least, that's what statistics guru Hans Rosling hopes to achieve in a new video. Rosling, who is a professor of global health at the...

Smart design tweaks make the Pegasus the most user-friendly and stage-ready acoustic-electric guitar on the market. It's not often that a truly original guitar design comes around. Guitarists are notoriously conservative...

Campaigners charge that drug companies withheld data on flu drugs because they are no better than aspirin - or a stiff whisky. Data from 2009 show otherwise

For vegans of the future Packaging tofu requires a gentle touch. You want to move the bricks quickly along the assembly line, but moving too quickly can cause the tofu to break. So engineers at manufacturing company Land...

A supermoon sneaks behind the Washington Monument

A riotous garden of tiny structures will spring up in a few hours just by making slight changes to liquid in a glass beaker

It's time the gob-faced squid and taildropper slug got the attention they deserve, argues Simon Watt, creator of the Ugly Animal Preservation Society Society.

Eco-offsetting - creating habitats to replace ones lost to development - can save wildlife, but may instead help business trump nature, says Fred Pearce