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Scientists have long used mathematics to describe the physical properties of the universe. But what if the universe itself is math? That's what cosmologist Max Tegmark believes.

It's Super Bowl time. See the feats of engineering that hold tens of thousands of football fans each year.

The underside of the Ross Ice Shelf held more than just a view of the ice.

Summer high tides are getting higher in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, boosting the destructive power of hurricanes.

A short video game may help children understand how to identify the signs of a stroke, and call 911 if they witness one, a new study suggests.

Regular ol' reading is so passé. E-readers? Not good enough. Try harder, science. Here's a good example: suit up and wire yourself into a book with this sensory fiction device. The Girl Who Was Plugged In MIT Media Lab ...

For the first time in more than two years, Yellowstone National Park's impressive Giantess Geyser is erupting. Rangers can't predict when this irregular geyser will blow.

A tiny fan moves air carrying acoustic pressure waves, guiding them to output ports which do not allow a return path. Think of this as a one-way mirror for sound spies.

The sunspot cluster (now called Region 1967) that exploded with m and x class flares at the beginning of January 2014 has returned with m-class crackle. The Moon orbits between Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Sun as w...

The new guidelines about who should take cholesterol-lowering statin drugs have become a source of controversy. Here's a look at what you need to know about the changes to the guidelines.

Piezoelectrics -- materials that can change mechanical stress to electricity and back again -- are everywhere in modern life. Computer hard drives. Loud speakers. Medical ultrasound. Sonar. Though piezoelectrics are a wi...

Researchers made a startling discovery -- an entirely new species of sea anemone living inside the ice.

A new device uses spinning air to create one-way sound, where people on one end of a device can hear, but they themselves cannot be heard.

A team of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering has built the first-ever circulator for sound. The team's experiments successfully prove that the fundamental symmetry with whic...

The map is the first to show brain areas devoted to distinct types of phoneme – it could allow what someone is hearing to be read from a brain scan     

They're not the work of World War II bombs or aliens or fairies. Instead, mysterious underwater rings spotted off the coast of Denmark are the result of poison, biologists say.

Incredible image of a volcanic eruption captured from an astronaut aboard the International Space Station.

Western corn rootworm beetle USDA When farmers want to kill crop pests or weeds now, they often spray their fields with something that can be deadly to a host of animals or plants. But what if they could target individua...

A smartphone-based system that listens to parents talk to their child can build the child's language skills by offering the parents cues in real time     

United States Representative Rush Holt (Dem., NJ) wants to designate Feb. 12 as "Darwin Day," to honor Charles Darwin's contributions to science and humanity.

A video from Fermilab highlights some of the many steps needed to build the largest neutrino experiment in the United States. Coordinating the construction of an international particle physics experiment is never an easy...

Future experiments will continue to search for missing-matter particles.