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On Sunday, Stratasys, a Minnesota and Israel-based 3D printer manufacturer, unveiled the world's first multi-material and multicolor 3D printer, the Objet500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D Printer.

The universe is made up of matter and energy. What is energy? Matter -- anything that has mass and takes up space -- is pretty straightforward and easy to grasp, but energy is a bit more abstract.

According to recent research (and some of my own calculations) sitting in your living room for an hour yields roughly the same dose of radiation as eating half a banana. A team in China working on improving the way sci...

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy will take part in an International Space Station, ISS, spacewalk to finish assembling two cameras and retrieve a science experiment. The spacewalk live stream, courtesy...

The "untouched" rainforests of Southeast Asia may have been more manhandled than previously thought, with humans burning forests to make way for food-bearing plants soon after the last ice age ended.

Contract killers are often paid a surprisingly small amount of money to kill people for petty personal reasons, contrary to television accounts of hit men, new research finds.

For women who've had breast cancer, yoga may reduce inflammation in the body and lessen the grip of fatigue, a new study says.

Adventurers with deep pockets can now explore the hidden depths of the ocean, thanks to a futuristic submarine that lets users "fly" underwater.

Most studies measuring the rate of hair growth haven't taken into account the race of study participants. A 2005 study found a difference among races in the rate of hair growth. Asian hair grows the fastest, while Africa...

The DeepFlight Super Falcon, developed by Hawkes Ocean Technologies, is a two-seater submersible that enables passengers to "soar" underwater.

Exposure to the pesticide DDT, which was banned in the United States in the 1970s but is still found in the environment, may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease, a new U.S. study suggests.

A new black carbon inventory shows that exposure to this pollutant is 130 percent greater than previous estimates have suggested, according to a new report.

The Arctic Ocean had an icy head start on Antarctica as the Earth cooled down after an extreme warm spell about 55 million years ago, a new study finds.

This is a quadcopter that launches rockets. According to Scottsdale, Ariz.-based ukarmy04, the Flitetest forum member behind the project, it's more of a proof of concept than anything else. The body is mostly wood, with ...

Far from being simply a "swimming pool" for sperm, seminal fluid may play a key role in the health of a male's offspring, according to a new study in mice.

Nearly 30 years after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity, many questions remain, but an Oak Ridge National Laboratory team is providing insight that could lead to better superconductors.

A new method for analyzing ancient DNA could help scientists distinguish the genetic material in ancient fossils from contamination caused by archaeologists who handled the bones, new research suggests.

Technology and science might not take center stage in President Barack Obama's 2014 State of the Union address on Tuesday, but they'll likely have very strong supporting roles. Here are a few of the key issues that the s...

From health to marriage, military service has some surprising impacts on returning veterans.

It's high time someone took advantage of the word jellyfish in this way. Dallas aquarists have turned moon jellies into the first peanut butter jellyfish ever.

A new round of U.S. Navy sonar testing off California is poised to harm hundreds of thousands of blue whales, dolphins and other animals.

Precog 20th Century Fox In an apparent move to feed its smart-hardware ambitions, Google has bought an artificial intelligence startup, DeepMind, for somewhere in the ballpark of $500 million. Considering all of the data...