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Albert Einstein is hands-down the most famous scientist who ever lived, and one of the most famous people in history. His contributions to physics sparked one of history's greatest scientific revolutions, and fundamental...

Santa Rides An MRAP In Kabul The reindeer are probably just chilling inside. U.S. Navy photo by Capt. Jane Campbell, via Wikimedia Commons It's not a tank, but its appearance still screams military, especially on a colle...

Today in Stuff You Have To Look Out For In The Future: drones falling on your head. Apparently, one crashed in Manhattan on Monday--almost right into a businessman, an ABC affiliate is reporting. The drone only weighed 3...

To aid in the decision making process, a study offers new information for those considering or needing surgery. For the first time, researchers assessed the economic and societal impact of ACL surgery in relation to the ...

A study has identified a gene expression profile that can predict outcomes and lead to better treatment for one of the most lethal lung diseases, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

The outlook for gas giant world Kepler-7b is cloudy with a chance of styrofoam     

Stanford University students set out to revolutionize home design by entering a solar powered prefab house into the Department of Energy's biennial Solar Decathlon competition.

IN 1996 Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University, submitted a paper to Social Text, a leading scholarly journal of postmodernist cultural studies. The journal's peer reviewers, whose job it is to ensure that publis...

3, 2, 1.1, lift-off THE space age began as a competition. In the 1950s and 1960s America and the Soviet Union took rocketry from the age of the V2 to that of the Saturn V in a race first to build nuclear missiles, and th...

CLOUDS and aerosols have long been two of the more mysterious forces in the climate. They sometimes warm and sometimes cool the Earth. The net effect, it was thought, was that they offset part of the overall warming tren...

But the company, 23andMe, insists it has no plans to use it to help people choose sperm and egg donors     

Surgeons have performed the region's first robotic gastrectomy, a potentially lifesaving procedure to remove a section of the stomach after a diagnosis of gastric cancer.

Shutdown notice from DOE.gov on October 2, 2013 The U.S. government has shut down. Sadly, so have most of its websites. No astronomy picture of the day at NASA.gov. No food pyramid guide at USDA.gov. No scanned images of...

Scientists have discovered that Crohn's disease, the inflammatory bowel disorder, can originate from specialized intestinal cell type called Paneth cells.

Researchers have identified DEET-detecting olfactory receptors in insects that cause repellency and three safe compounds that mimic DEET and could one day be used to prevent the transmission of deadly vector-borne diseas...

Workplace health promotion programs that improve employee health can lead to significant increases in productivity -- and associated cost savings, reports a new study.

The Red Planet's past was shaped by supervolcanoes akin to the one that sculpted Yellowstone National Park     

Potential Logitech Gamepad evleaks When Apple released iOS7, its latest smartphone operating system, the company included a way for developers to create game controller add-ons for the phone. Controller add-ons have exis...

The notorious bacteria E. coli is best known for making people sick, but scientists have reprogrammed the microbe -- which also comes in harmless varieties -- to make it seek out and fight other disease-causing pathogens...

Researchers have identified, for the first time, a precise causal link between neuronal activity in the lateral hypothalamus and the state of REM sleep. Using optogenetics, they were able to induce REM sleep in mice and ...

A new analysis of California's mental health system finds that comprehensive, community-based mental health programs are helping people with serious mental illness transition to independent living.

Working through lunch might not be as bad as they say, suggests a new paper on work recovery, but only if employees choose that themselves, and don't feel pressured into it.