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With a new smartphone device, you can now take an accurate iPhone camera selfie that could save your life -- it reads your cholesterol level in about a minute.

The Fitbug Orb is a new activity tracker. The main selling point of the Orb is its low cost, $49.95, but how much do you get for the price

Researchers from the University of New England in Australia have discovered a fossil dating back millions of years, in Canada, which may ignite a rethinking of what scientists know about the appearance and behavior of th...

A certain kind of holiday traveler is finding a very cold welcome in New York City. Three snowy owls were reportedly shot and killed at John F. Kennedy International Airport this past Saturday, according to the Los Angel...

Scientists poking around Ethiopia's fossil-rich badlands say they discovered pieces of an extinct species of horse that was about the size of a small zebra and lived about 4.4 million years ago.

How AI Sees The World Graham Murdoch Facebook users upload 350 million photos onto the social network every day, far beyond the ability of human beings to comprehensively look at, much less analyze. And so that's one big...

Most of us have never heard of Ctenophores, or comb jellies, but this is about to change.

Patients relearn to walk after stroke, spinal cord or brain injury often fear falling, which may inhibit their recovery. Robotic body weight support system provides adding security to maximize progress.

A new study of nearly 3,000 individuals links obesity to the development of kidney disease.

Young children with autism have a tough time making social connections, but because they often have an affinity for technology, psychologists using a robot can help these children understand concepts like imitation.

Pneumatic Tube Delivery System in the Basement of the New York Life Insurance Building Popular Science, January 1930 A restaurant in Christchurch, New Zealand, plans to install a pneumatic tube system for delivering slid...

This week in science, we looked at what might be an ancient lake on Mars, weighed the benefits of organic milk, and gleaned what we could from the autopsy of the comet ISON, which by all accounts did not survive its brus...

Image by Choose_Freewill via flickr With the wintry holiday season now upon us, icicles will soon join luminous and festive decorative lights along roofs and rafters. Natural icicles are more than convenient decorations,...

The top 10 breakthroughs in the story of humanity.

Ten thousand bonefish migrate to offshore waters thousands of feet deep to spawn before quickly returning to their usual shallow-water habitat.

A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints.

Ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles have been showing promise in recent years as a non-invasive way to break up dangerous blood clots. But though many researchers have studied the effectiveness of this technique, not much...

When she got the call from Stockholm, Valerie Jamieson's heart soared: this was one celebration that anyone curious about our cosmos would enjoy     

In a case series seemingly tailor-made for cinematic tragedy or farce, emergency physicians report severe botulism poisoning from a batch of potato-based "wine" (also known as pruno) cooked up in a Utah prison.

A research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints, calling for a newly designed durable hydrogel to be poured over a three-dimensional fabric "scaffold."

Approximately 10 percent of Medicare spending is for cancer care, and Medicare spending is nearly four times higher for beneficiaries with cancer than in those without the disease.

Some lymphoma types resistant to conventional therapies could be treated more effectively by using drugs geared towards the specific molecular alteration of the tumor.