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Scientists on the IceCube experiment discovered two extraterrestrial neutrinos with energies higher than any neutrino anyone had detected before. Physicists on the IceCube experiment were in for a jolt. In processing dat...

Set to launch on Nov 18th, 2013, the orbiter seek to rewind the planet's geologic history back to the wet, warm epoch that might have spawned life. MAVEN's instruments may help scientists understand why the planet lost m...

Catholic schools don't provide a better education than public schools, at least in the basics such as math and reading. Instead, Catholic students' edge may come from their different socioeconomic background.

Heart tissue implants -- that could help people's hearts spring back into action after heart attacks -- could be made better by growing heart cells in scaffolds made of coiled fibers, rather than straight fibers, researc...

The ideal age for first parenthood is 25 for women and 27 for men, new research suggests. But those averages conceal wide differences in opinion across race, gender and education level.

Whether everyday activities such as housework, gardening or sex can be considered as exercise is a topic of current research. But traditional workouts are still important. Here are tips for starting and sticking with an ...

Power Up Duke University A wireless device developed by researchers at Duke University that converts microwaves into electricity could eventually harvest Wi-Fi or satellite signals for power, according to its creators. I...

Solar radiation, trapped by our atmosphere, keeps Earth warm. But if human activity is making it too warm, Stanford scientists have developed a panel that can return heat to space. Is this a tool for future geo-engineeri...

Robots tiny enough to fit inside your body might someday deliver your medicine from the inside. From Inside Science TV.

One might think that all the species of shark off the U.S. East Coast would've been identified by now. But a new analysis has turned up a new species of hammerhead shark off South Carolina.

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Although silicon semiconductors are nearly universal in modern electronics, devices made from silicon have limitations--including that they cease to function properly at very high temperatures. One promising alternative ...

The amount of media requested by users in the United States will reach about 15.5 hours per person by 2015. But people aren't paying attention to all that data, researchers say.

A motion-sensing camera that recognises kicking, pushing, throwing and hitting could raise the alarm when violence breaks out     

A man in Atlanta has been diagnosed with a severe case of saxophone lung. Though the name of the condition seems odd, it's quite appropriate, since saxophonists and other wind-instrument players are among those who contr...

New system can automatically identify grape varietal and sugar content.

An asteroid with a record number of dusty tails may be rotating so fast it is falling apart, which could help us understand the way asteroids die     

Go to a hospital intensive care unit and what you'll see are bulky machines not very different from what you saw on ER in the 1990s. But mobile vital sign monitors are at last making inroads inside the hospital walls. So...

This fascinating space wallpaper shows a simulation of a gas cloud passing close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy in mid-2013.

Cancer, depression, ADHD, autism - we blame them on the stresses and strains of modern life, but these diseases could have much older origins (full text available to subscribers)     

A 10-year-old boy with leukemia underwent a bone-marrow transplant, and after the procedure, doctors discovered that he was cured of his peanut allergy, they reported today.

This tiny freshwater crab has three eyes and an antenna-like structure on its back - and science has never seen anything like it