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The bacteria in your gut today may not be the same tomorrow, depending on what kinds of food you eat, a new study suggests.

Though humans pride themselves in their abilities to snap self-portraits with flick of a wrist and help of a smart phone, some members of the wild animal world have caught on to the trend and have taken part in the craze...

Ouija boards are supposedly used to communicate with the dead. But do they really work?

A thriving community of single-celled microbes that consume carbon dioxide for food populate Antarctica's glacial Lake Whillans, the shallow lake buried under thousands of feet of ice.

Scientists are studying how the warming climate is effecting the vegetation on Greenland's tundra, where woody shrubs are replacing grasslands, which could change how much carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere.

Let's all give ourselves a well-deserved pat on the back, because according to an annual measurement of the U.S.'s overall health, Americans made healthier living choices in 2013. The report, released Wednesday, shows th...

Google Glass has been making a splash in the tech world, but the high-tech spectacles could also be useful for teaching science. Here at LiveScience, we took Glass for a test-drive while we performed a simple science exp...

A computer's microphone and speakers can covertly send and receive data.

Women who have had children are often advised to do exercises to tighten their pelvic floor muscles.

The Curiosity Mars mission's successes make it a strange time for NASA to make funding changes that risk the careers of a generation of planetary scientists     

Comet ISON did not end up being the "comet of the century" as many hoped but scientists are still excited about the comet even after its demise. NASA presented the last days of ISON and discussed the final moment of the ...

Mars One 2018 Lander Concept Art Bryan Versteeg and Mars One Yesterday, Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced the companies it hopes will build the technology necessary for the first private mi...

Tiny hybrid robots could shepherd individual sperm to eggs to help fertilisation, or to deliver targeted doses of drugs     

The classified drone, dubbed RQ-180, is being tested at Area 51, a clandestine military base in the Nevada desert that has famously been used to test different spy planes since the 1950s. The is designed conduct surveill...

FACET An image of airplane traffic from the simulation tool FACET. Juan Alonso "When space traffic becomes routine, there's going to be significant conflict between commercial air traffic and space traffic," says Juan Al...

Make a gelatin scaffold, add a pinch of brain tissue with the cells removed, followed by stem cells - and watch the neurons grow     

If you can't remember all your passwords, take heart: hardware tokens that can't be cloned will soon offer secure access to your digital life     

The current emergency in Shanghai comes at the end of a year in which China's environmental crisis reached a tipping point.

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A device that keeps an eye on what you're looking at could one day make transferring files between devices as easy as shifting your gaze     

The Boston Dynamics-built ATLAS is the rescue robot prototype that gets all the attention, but now NASA is getting in on the action, unveiling Valkyrie, a 6-foot 2-inch, 275-pound rescue robot. The 'bot, an entrant in th...

Layers of stretchy skin, hard bone and jelly-like tumour in this 3D-printed model skull give surgeons an experience that feels just like the real thing