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Waterwheel-powered Trash Interceptor Illustration by Son Of Alan This spring, Baltimore's Inner Harbor will become home to the first permanent waterwheel-powered trash interceptor. With energy from the Jones Falls River ...

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Sharks equipped with sophisticated sensors and cameras are helping researchers uncover new clues about their swimming and eating habits. The novel, "shark's eye" views are illuminating some of the least-understood behavi...

Haitian-Ameican, post-doctoral fellow Wanda Eugene designs technology interfaces that meet users where they are.

It's so thin it set records. A Chinese company has created the world's thinnest latex condom, snagging the Guinness World Record for the barely-there wrapper.

California is fed up with cleaning up the plastic that collects on its waterways and beaches, but whose responsibility is it to clean up this made-made marvel that never breaks down? The plastic manufacturers make the st...

This videos shows Ray tracing visualization of groundwater flowing through limestone aquifers in South Florida.

Eating a small snack a few hours before bedtime may help you sleep by preventing hunger from waking you. However, there are no snacks that guarantee to put you to sleep.

A mountain lion cub honed her hunting skills on a dead mule deer caught by mom earlier this month in California's Malibu Creek State Park.

One of the most controversial drugs to come to market in many years, the new painkiller known as Zohydro ER (hydrocodone bitartrate) is setting off alarms in the medical, law enforcement and drug rehabilitation communiti...

The world's biggest wind-driven ocean current carries 20 percent more water than previously thought, scientists announced this week.

The discovery of tiny balls and tunnels inside a Martian meteorite has rekindled the debate over whether the Red Planet was teeming with primitive life millions of years ago.

It happens to everyone. You told yourself just one more House of Cards episode before you hit the sack. It's already 3:42 a.m. but you need to find out whether Francis Underwood will get away with his devious behavior. T...

Cleaning up the plastic debris on California's beaches is a costly venture ($420 million to be exact), and a recently proposed bill could incentivize plastic producers to reduce packaging waste and make them pay for part...

New images from space reveal the storms that are bringing much needed rains to California. Though the storms will help, they won't make much of a dent in the historic drought.

The first detailed model of a 3D strand of curly hair has been created, a development that could be a boon for the film and computer animation industries, researchers say.

MPQ-scientists record broad absorption spectra on a microsecond scale with two laser frequency combs.

A surge in popularity of horse ownership in China's Sichuan Province threatened the Giant Panda. Only 1,600 pandas live in the wild.

Global Hawk Drone In Flight Department of Defense via Wikimedia Commons Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmanned a...

Indirect brain stimulation by pouring water into the ear does not cure people who feel rejection towards a limb, but hints at the cause of the problem     

Google street view has added an image of whale sharks and an underwater museum to a set of undersea images of the planet.

Among autistic kids, the finding that girls have more of a type of genetic mutation than boys backs up the idea that females are somehow shielded