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The 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami shook Japan, led to a nuclear meltdown (at a plant where accidents continue to leak radioactive water into the ocean to this day), and claimed nearly 16,000 lives.

Scientists at the University of Malta think touch screens are for suckers. Mind-controlled devices? Now, that's where it's at. Outfitted in an electrode-studded cap, users of the group's specially designed music software...

Researchers have created some incredibly strong artificial muscles that were created from cheap household items. The team developed these powerful muscles using some fishing line and sewing thread to create muscles that ...

We’re back from our travels with some nifty new physics: the best of the backlog of stuff we perused upon our return from that mysterious Land With No Internet Connection. --

Cute camo, satellite photobombs and a cosmic shockwave just start our list of favorite images this week.

The cottonmouth snake, also know as water moccasin, is North America's only poisonous water snake.

The Devonian Period occurred from 416 million to 358 million years ago. It is often known as the "Age of Fishes."

As the name implies, procedural memory stores information on how to perform certain procedures, such as walking, talking and riding a bike, without having to consciously think about them.

The practice is controversial in the U.S.

Can carbon standards survive against a public disinformation campaign?

To take down poachers, follow the money.

Added sugar in our diet is a very recent phenomenon and only occurred when sugar, obtained from sugar cane, beet and corn, became very cheap to produce.

Contrary to the film of DreamWorks' imagining, Madagascar is not ruled by King Julien and his colony of lemurs. In fact the status of the lemurs on the island - the only place on earth that they exist - is a very precari...

Symbols in the medieval text have been mapped to sounds using a method reminiscent of the one that helped linguists decode Egyptian hieroglyphs     

For the average person, knowing your beats-per-minute may be interesting, but it remains to be seen whether this can help make you more healthy. Live Science Senior Writer Rachael Rettner explains why.

Several new activity trackers allow users to constantly measure their heart rate throughout the day. Live Science Senior Writer Rachael Rettner describes how they get their data.

In a new look at a previous study that had to end early because of disappointing results, researchers find that selenium and vitamin E supplements may almost double men's risk of prostate cancer.

While sifting through a 19th century trash heap buried below Manhattan's City Hall Park, archaeologists discovered a vaginal syringe used for douching.

Some people may develop contact dermatitis from metallic nickel or other irritants in fitness bands worn on their wrists. Live Science News Writer Megan Gannon narrows down the cause of such blistering rashes, which are ...

Sleep experts are skeptical that accelerometers in most wearable fitness trackers can truly distinguish sleep states or even know when you're just lying down but awake. Live Science Senior Writer Rachael Rettner tells wh...

Health officials are warning that vaccination rates are dropping in many areas. In a worrisome trend, it's the college-educated residents of affluent areas like Malibu, Calif., and Boulder, Colo., who are skipping vaccin...