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Camel spiders are not spiders, and they don't eat camels -- or people. These arachnids became infamous after the Gulf War.

BigDog Walks In The Woods Technically named the LS3, for "Legged Squad Support System. Lance Cpl. M. L. Meier, USMC via Wikimedia Commons BigDog is a cinderblock-hurling robot that shambles like a something out of Lovecr...

Editor's Note: Excerpted with permission from “ Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality ”   by Edward Frenkel. Available from Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books... --

Barrier Reef Courtesy Catlin Seaview survey Last year, the Catlin Seaview Survey completed the most detailed picture of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Using underwater vehicles with 360-degree cameras, the survey's scie...

Menlo Park, Calif. -- In an advance that could dramatically shrink particle accelerators for science and medicine, researchers used a laser to accelerate electrons at a rate 10 times higher than conventional technology i...

Clinical trial design for new cancer therapies has historically been focused on the tissue of origin of a tumor, but a paper published in Nature Genetics supports a new approach: one based on the genomic signature of a t...

Researchers have identified immune cells that promote growth of beta cells in type 1 diabetes.

A new report has outed a shadowy organisation called Hidden Lynx - a 100-strong group of expert hackers who are available for hire     

The sperm from two males are photographed battling for supremacy inside a female fruit fly's reproductive tract     

An intravaginal ring effectively delivers HIV-preventing drugs for one month.

New research could offer solutions into slowing down the progression of motor neuron disease.

A team of researchers has devised a novel nuclear magnetic resonance imaging technique that delivers a roughly 10-nanometer spatial resolution. This represents a significant advance in MRI sensitivity -- modern MRI techn...

In a first-of-its-kind study to evaluate the impact of a medical specialty on patient outcomes, researchers found that hospitalized patients with severe infections such as meningitis and Clostridium difficile are signifi...

Scanning the DNA of nearly 5,000 tumor samples, a team led of scientists has identified 140 regions of scrambled genetic code believed to contain many undiscovered cancer genes. Mapping of the abnormal regions gives canc...

A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) is a hard lot. Patients typically get the diagnosis around age 30 after experiencing a series of neurological problems such as blurry vision, wobbly gait or a numb foot. From there,...

People with mental illness smoke at much higher rates than the overall population. But the popular belief that they are self-medicating is most likely wrong, according to researchers. Instead, they report, research indic...

New findings suggest that attitudes coming into play about making medical decisions around vaccinating children are shaped by prior cultural values.

The words we use in our emails to one another can give an insight into who we are, and what our personality traits might be     

When the soccer video game FIFA 14 went on sale this week, it boasted a ball that, at long last, could sail smartly through the air. In earlier versions of the game, unless the ball was kicked long... --

The May issue of National Geographic boldy states, "This Baby Will Live to Be 120 (and It's Not Just Hype)"; Pew Research published a poll on radical life extension in August; Google funded a new company, Calico, to tack...

Reusable, magnetic nanoparticles can remove crude oil from water. A boat wades through the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. image by Kris Krug, rights When 4.9 million barrels of crude oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexic...

Living things have a huge influence on our planet. Earth without life would be very different place, finds Bob Holmes (full text available to subscribers)