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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...

The older we get, the higher our risk of cancer.

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.

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...

The silvery bonefish forms huge, spinning schools of thousands to spawn in the Bahamas, new observations reveal. The findings point to the need for broader conservation efforts to protect this sport fish.

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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.

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

This wallpaper shows Gulf Islands National Seashore of Florida and Mississippi. Stunning beaches, historic ruins, wildlife sanctuaries and remote islands make up this wonderful park.

You can take a tour of Mars' frozen north pole in a new 3D animation from the European Space Agency (ESA).

Saturn's iconic rings likely formed about 4.4 billion years ago, shortly after the planet itself took shape, a new study suggests.

Phosphorous -- one of the essential elements for life -- has been discovered in the cosmic leftovers from a star explosion for the first time, scientists say.

A French island in the Caribbean has reported locally acquired cases of chikungunya, raising the prospect of the virus spreading across the Americas     

Bahrain is hardly alone in its embrace of, or perhaps belief in, witches and black magic, as places such as Saudi Arabia, Africa and Papua New Guinea have long tossed accusations of dark arts' practices at purported sorc...

A woolly jumper and hat are a matter of survival for this young Syrian refugee facing a white Christmas in the Middle East     

Global warming is causing the North Pole's position to drift, offering a new way to study the impact of our greenhouse-gas emissions