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Religion and astronomy don't often overlap, but a new NASA X-ray image has captured a celestial object that resembles the "Hand of God." The hand was produced when a star blew up and ejected an enormous cloud of material...

The Basis B1 band is an activity tracker that's marketed to help busy people fit exercise into their everyday lives. I tested the device for a week to see if it lived up to this claim.

In a paper published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials today, researchers demonstrated the first optical isolator on silicon waveguide platforms.

A new four-year study of tiger sharks off the coast of Australia has revealed patterns in the animals' mysterious migratory wanderings, including curious differences based on the gender and age of the sharks.

Great white sharks may live much longer than previously thought, and also take longer to reach maturity, new research suggests.

A 2-month-old baby polar bear at Toronto Zoo took his first steps in this video.

The tongue-twisting woman who sold seashells by the seashore may have damaged the coastal ecosystem.

A new type of coating repels water with such efficiency that droplets literally bounce off.

In a heart-warming, ironic twist, a child's book about a dog's trip to the International Space Station is currently en route to that very place.Today, at 1:10 p.m. EST time a rocket, the first of eight commercial logisti...

"Invisibility cloaks" are what made them famous, but metamaterials have another use – doing mathematical calculations by bending light     

In this ridiculously cute new video from the Toronto Zoo, a 2-month-old baby polar bear takes his first shaky steps.

The container ship, reimagined Nick Kaloterakis When it comes to shipping, humans crews are inconvenient. They need places to sleep and to take care care of bodily functions, they probably require food and a place to pre...

An ultraprecise new galaxy map is shedding light on the properties of dark energy, the mysterious force thought to be responsible for the universe's accelerating expansion.

Wearable technology has gone to the dogs: a soon-to-be-released device will allow owners to keep tabs on their dog's activity, rest and even heart rate.

The clymene dolphin may be a rarity in the mammal world: the product of a mating between two species.

Syringelike bacterial structures push larval tubeworms into adulthood, according to new research.

Syringelike bacterial structures push larval tubeworms into adulthood, according to new research.

Watson IBM Watson, IBM's Ken Jennings-smirk-obliterating robot riddle-solver, is getting $1 billion and some new digs in the hopes that it can be brought to the masses. The company announced that they'll be fueling the s...

Tiny marine microbes that are thought to play a crucial role in the planet's carbon and nutrient cycles are mysteriously shedding massive amounts of bacterial "buds," loaded with proteins and genetic information, into th...

The field of metamaterials has produced structures with unprecedented abilities, including flat lenses, invisibility cloaks and even optical "metatronic" devices that can manipulate light in the way electronic circuitry ...

EnLighten feeds off real-time traffic data and provides a countdown and a chime to alert the driver before the lights change     

Ants, antibiotics and a fleet of tiny satellites are now headed for the space station, heralding a scientific and commercial boom in space