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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...

Research using special adult stem cells is promising new hope for better treatments for the devastating genetic disease Hurler's syndrome.

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     

Debris from the deadly tsunami that struck Japan almost three years ago is drifting across the Pacific Ocean toward North America, and will likely continue to wash onto North American shores over the next few years, acco...

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...

In the largest study on the topic to date, research shows that speaking a second language may delay the onset of three types of dementias.

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...

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     

The polar bear is one of five species whose extinction risk is actually a myth.

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...

Researchers are challenging the commonly held view that drug addiction occurs because users are always going after the high. Based on new animal studies, they say the initial positive feelings of intoxication are short l...

Researchers have found that mothers' relationships can influence adolescent children's relationships with their friends, particularly the negative and antagonistic aspects.

Latest research provides new insight into mechanisms through which lower hormone levels may make the body more susceptible to damage caused by stress and the chronic elevation of the fight or flight response. A pattern c...

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...