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Last month in a Ted Talk, Shiv Gaglani showed that a standard physical exam can now be done using only smartphone apps and attachments. From blood pressure cuff to stethoscope and otoscope -- the thing the doctor uses to...

A new initiative to understand the human brain, announced by President Barack Obama earlier this year, has left people wondering exactly what its goals will be. The project's leaders provided some answers and a healthy d...

All over the world, we're finding art tens of thousands of years older than it should be. What awoke our creative minds so early, asks Alison George (full text available to subscribers)     

In a new study, people who ate about one ounce of nuts each day were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30-year period.

Ununtrium -- Element 113: Properties, sources and uses.

While this might read like a scenario from a George Orwell novel, it is actually a reasonable step into the not-so-distant future of the next generation of robots.

In our universe there are particle accelerators 40 million times more powerful than the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Scientists don't know what these cosmic accelerators are or where they are located, but new res...

For all the promise of graphene as a material for next-generation electronics and quantum computing, scientists still don't know enough about this high-performance conductor to effectively control an electric current.

Despite genius moments, dogs can't grasp some concepts.

National Geographic recognized the achievements of 13 individuals in their list of 2014 Adventurers of the Year.

Scientists have made cheeses from bacteria cultured from belly lint, toes, and noses. The cheeses are apparently infused with the bacterial aroma of their original owners.

Imagine that you begin your day at an auction, purchasing a myriad of equipment for your laboratory. You then spend the afternoon recording data on the radioactive half-life of uranium, and you end the evening by looking...

Scientists have found a huge but diffuse ring of dust near the orbit of Venus, marking the second time such a structure has been discovered in our solar system. The dust ring stretches about 137 million miles from end to...

A single layer of tin atoms could be the world's first material to conduct electricity with 100 percent efficiency at the temperatures that computer chips operate, according to a team of theoretical physicists led by res...

Chris Barnes PBA For a championship series airing early next month, the Professional Bowlers Association will be trying something out of the ordinary: using lanes that look like a Smurf went splat on them. Technical back...

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, researchers found the first evidence of high-energy neutrinos from outside the solar system. The findings open the door for a new era of astronomy.

This cool space wallpaper reveals a very young star being born in the guts of the dark cloud LDN 43 -- a massive blob of gas, dust, and ices, gathered 520 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Ser...

The Y chromosome is often thought of as defining the male sex. Now scientists find that only two genes on the Y chromosome are needed in mice for them to father offspring.

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a particle detector buried in the Antarctic ice, is a demonstration of the power of the human passion for discovery, where scientific ingenuity meets technological innovation. Today, nea...

Some anti-cancer therapies work best when the friendly microbes in our body are strong and healthy     

Using just two genes from the male Y chromosome is enough to create immature sperm that can fertilise a mouse egg and create a viable pup     

Within the eternal ice of Antarctica, scientists have observed the first solid evidence for high-energy neutrinos coming from cosmic accelerators beyond our own solar system. Between May 2010 and May 2012 the IceCube det...