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The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has a reputation for working on some of the most cutting-edge, futuristic projects. From humanoid robots to flying armored cars, here are 10 of the coolest DA...

(Northwestern University) Scientists have discovered a long sought, critical new clue about why some people are able to control the HIV virus long term without taking antiviral drugs. The finding may be useful in shorten...

The cocktail boat that zips around your drink was inspired by water-walking insects.

Society's progress, well planned, can coexist with ancient animal migration routes.

Properties, sources and uses of the element lawrencium.

An underwater wireless Internet? Researchers have a solution, and it's about to make the ocean a noisy place.

Typhoon Wipha has not created any new problems at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant.

The Pre-Incan culture of the Wari was not ruled predominantly through tight centralized control, but instead likely expanded through trade and semi-autonomous colonies, new research suggests.

The line between life and death is not as clear as once thought, now that developments in the science of resuscitation have made it possible to revive people even hours after their heart has stopped beating and they are ...

On the same week that a federal budget standoff shut down vast swaths of the U.S. government, a freak blizzard shut down vast swaths of South Dakota. And both disasters have combined to devastate one of the state's bigge...

Scientists observed in vivo that neocortical neurons, cells that control higher functions such as sight, language and spatial reasoning, have a set average firing rate and return to this set point even during prolonged p...

What a piece of work is a man HOW many human species roamed Africa when the genus Homo emerged there about 2.4m years ago is a vexed question. Conventional wisdom suggests that there were as many as four--Homo erectus, H...

Nearly nine out of 10 nursing home physicians said that using their mobile devices to look up prescription drug information prevented at least one adverse drug event in the previous month.

The prion protein responsible for the human version of BSE is twice as common in the UK as the previous best estimate, suggests the biggest survey yet     

Rising sea levels are transforming Florida's Everglades. Plant communities that thrive in salt water are taking over along the coast.

This week's podcast is all about movie magic. How do filmmakers simulate weightlessness when they want to make movies that take place in space? Today I talk about three movies that each tried different approaches to this...

We have a decade to save the oceans - is the solution public-private partnerships?     

A menajerie of rare life living in the deep sea canyons off the east coast of the United States are under threat from deep sea oil drilling, bottom trawling, and seismic exploration.

The super-Earths spotted in our galaxy so far formed in a very different way to our own celestial home, which could affect their suitability for life     

Ingo Potrykus, the man behind rice modified to boost dietary vitamin A, explains why, decades on, he is still fighting to make it widely available     

The discovery of a fossilized brain in the preserved remains of an extinct "mega-clawed" creature has revealed an ancient nervous system that is remarkably similar to that of modern-day spiders and scorpions, according t...

Stroke patients who participate in a cardiac rehabilitation program for six months make rapid gains in how far and fast they can walk, the use of weakened limbs and their ability to sit and stand.