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If exercise isn't your idea of fun, maybe you should invite some friends: A new study suggests people enjoy physical activity more when they're with others.

The sun-approaching Comet ISON floats against a seemingly infinite backdrop of numerous galaxies and a handful of foreground stars in this amazing space wallpaper taken in April 2013 by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

(American Association for the Advancement of Science) Stories about efforts to prevent the Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes, about evolutionary stress on endangered pupfish in the Mojave Desert, and about the use...

For the first time, electrodes placed in the brain have allowed monkeys to control two virtual arms simultaneously using just the power of thought     

The Russian meteorite was the largest to hit Earth in a century. From sunburns to exotic chemistry, it sparked a flurry of forensic research     

Scientists planning the next decade in US particle physics consider what we can learn from fundamental particles called neutrinos. We live in a galaxy permeated with tiny particles called neutrinos. Trillions of them str...

A new technique that combines optical plates to manipulate laser light improves the quality of holograms.

Aircraft could fly at six times the speed of sound, now that engineers claim to have solved a problem that prevented aircraft flying faster than Mach 3     

(Virginia Commonwealth University) A theoretical, three-dimensional form of carbon that is metallic under ambient temperature and pressure has been discovered by an international research team.

Since Yasser Arafat died of uncertain causes in 2004, rumors have swirled that the Palestinian leader may have been assassinated. Investigators determined that Arafat's personal effects and his body contained extraordina...

Virtual monkey avatar shown from a 3rd person perspective as the movements of the two arms are decoded in real-time from the brain of a rhesus monkey. The monkey sees the arms and 3D objects from a 1st person perspective...

Bilingualism can strengthen the brain, a new study shows. People who spoke two languages developed dementia about 5 years later, on average, than people who spoke only one language.

Speaking more than one language seems to delay Alzheimer's, vascular and frontotemporal dementia for up to five years - and it may never be too late to start     

Sci-fi authors, take note: Monkeys have learned to move a pair of virtual arms directly using their brain. The finding is just the latest demonstration of efforts to record signals from neurons in the primate brain and u...

When physicist Tim Leighton saw documentary footage of dolphins using bubble nets to catch their prey, he knew something was fishy. How were the dolphins differentiating the bubbles and the fish? Even the most sophistoca...

How long infants spend looking at other people's eyes may be an earlier marker of autism, a new study suggests.

Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich have developed a new method of using nanotubes to detect molecules at extremely low concentrati...

Scientists discovered an "odd-clawed" spider that traps its prey using a fascinating ladder-shaped web.

Leslie Rosenberg and his colleagues are about to go hunting. Their quarry: A theorized-but-never-seen elementary particle called an axion.

Long overshadowed by his friend Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace is finally gaining recognition as the other discoverer of evolution 100 years after his death.

A group of researchers at Cornell University teaching a robot how to properly and safely handle a variety of objects, from sharp knives to egg cartons, based on human feedback in a grocery-store scenario.

A remote Russian volcano may be readying for a new eruption. On Nov. 5, a satellite spotted ash above Kamchatka's Zhupanovksy volcano, which recently woke from a decades-long slumber.