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I wore the Polar Loop fitness tracker for more than a week, running, swimming, working out on an elliptical machine and exercising with kettlebells, to test out its mojo. Here's what I found.

A paper published in the European Physical Journal H provides the first English translation and an analysis of one of Albert Einstein's little-known papers, "On the cosmological problem of the general theory of relativit...

How do you sense the world beyond a spacesuit's restrictions?

California's drought has left communities, especially in rural areas, scrambling for water. The groundwater left is at high risk of contamination because pollutants are less diluted than usual.

Stress is linked with headaches, according to a new study that finds that people with more stress in their lives tend to suffer more frequent and more intense headaches.

With a test group of 16 of the most dire cases of adult B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or B-ALL, a cell therapy approach that boosts the patient's own immune system managed to guide nearly 90 percent into complete ...

Bananas For LEGO Blocks Corinne Iozzio We've said it before, and we'll say it again: Every toy does not need an app! So once again, as we cruised the aisles at the American International Toy Fair this week, we largely tu...

(Phys.org) --A team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering and Russian Academy of Science have demonstrated a new type of holographic memory device that could provide un...

Processors used in gaming and supercomputers could give robots much more human-like minds, enabling them to navigate the skies and explore Mars autonomously     

Mount Vesuvius rains down on Pompeii, and a tsunami floods its streets. The filmmakers used some artistic license in the eruption and its aftermath, but the general sequence of events is accurate.

Gusting winds blew away Alaska's wind chill record on Valentine's Day (Feb. 14), setting a new low of minus 97 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 71 degrees Celsius).

The rotating blades of wind turbines trigger regular lightning bolts that can blast 2 kilometres up into the atmosphere     

People may participate in sadomasochism less for the sexual pleasure and more for the mental high, according to two studies on the minds of people in the S&M community.

The retired Earth-watching satellite Landsat 5 may have quit taking pictures of planet, but it's apparently not finished posing in them.

We're right in the middle of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, so for this week's podcast I decided to talk to Physics Central's resident snowboarding expert, James Riordon (also known as Buzz Skyline), about the physic...

Various authors at the Human Society contribute to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed and Insights.

Sonic booms made as the Higgs boson boiled into being could point to new physics if gravitational wave detectors can find the ripples they left behind     

Scientists in Germany said Wednesday they had made the most precise measurement yet of the mass of the electron, one of the building blocks of matter.

A scuba diver captured a video of a brief tussle between a rare giant octopus and his diving partner.

Fecal transplants can help people with serious bacterial infections in their guts, but the way these "poop transplants" are now regulated prevents some patients from receiving them, and also hampers research, experts arg...

The giant magma blob beneath Yellowstone National Park unleashed tons of ancient helium gas as it torched North America.

A new measure of the electron's atomic mass is the most precise yet, and could eventually pave the way for experiments to test the reigning model of physics.