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Glowing sea worms, super typhoon Haiyan and images of the Milky Way sent from Hubble are just the beginning of some of the most amazing images for this week.

A Southern California startup called Tribogenics is using a new method of producing X-rays, fleshed out by Darpa-funded research at UCLA, to make X-ray machines more robust and portable.

Despite the hype, most educational games for the iPad have never been tested for their educational value, and even fewer have been shown to improve general abilities.

Archaeologists have unearthed traces of a previously unknown, 14th-century Canaanite city buried underneath the ruins of another city in Israel.

The Internet of Things presents big opportunities for businesses of all sizes.

There's one thing employees wish their bosses would say more often. The problem is, bosses think they are already saying it.

A study of almost 400 former elite male athletes shows that former status as an elite athlete reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in later life by 28 percent.

Despite nearly universal awareness of report cards on risk-adjusted mortality rates of individual cardiac surgeons, cardiologists in New York State do not use these reports when making patient referral decisions.

A new study finds that, on average, 30 percent of all lab tests are probably unnecessary -- and equally as many necessary tests may be going unordered.

No longer a phenomenon, electric vehicles accelerate in popularity.

Why is the President replacing nukes instead of upgrading them?

In the pursuit of bioengineering breakthroughs, is animal research ethical?

Asthma is a condition in which a person's airways are inflamed, which can cause coughing, wheezing and shortness of breath.

Life isn't easy for a young salmon. After being born in fresh water, the fledgling fish travels hundreds of miles to the ocean, often carried by currents tail-first, where it encounters deep, predator-infested waters wit...

The so-called Dueling Dinosaurs are set to sell next week for an estimated $7-9 million, but the case highlights scientists' discomfort when potentially great fossils head for auction rather than a peer review.

In 2006, fossil hunters discovered a pair of dinosaur fossils, arranged as if they died locked in combat. The so-called Montana Dueling Dinosaurs date back to some 67 million years ago.