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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     

A lung-damaging molecule has been discovered in higher concentrations in cystic fibrosis patients during symptom flare-ups. This molecule, which has a buttery flavor and is the main ingredient in microwave popcorn flavor...

Although levels of furan--a carcinogen resulting from heat treatment techniques, such as canning and jarring--are far below of what would cause harmful effect as determined by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA), a tea...

Recent developments across the globe have put an increasing focus on the traceability of foods. Complicated supply chains of hundreds of ingredients that are used to make a food product make food product tracing a daunti...

High-dose supplementation with both the trace element selenium and vitamin E increase the risk of high-grade prostate cancer. But importantly, this risk depends upon a man's selenium status before taking the supplements....

An antibody found in the blood of people with multiple sclerosis may be present long before the onset of the disease and its symptoms, according to a study. For the study, 16 healthy blood donors who were later diagnosed...

Sauces and marinades are an easy way for consumers cooking at home to infuse distinctive flavors into all kinds of different foods. New consumer trends and a growing interest in international/ethnic flavor preferences re...

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.