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Aspirin is a common pain reliever. Learn how aspirin works, what "baby aspirin" is for, what aspirin's side effects are, and whether you should give aspirin to your dog.

Like with unleaded gas, opposition to new EPA emissions rules will fade as health benefits pile up.

The U.S. Navy's newest aircraft carrier -- a massive warship outfitted with the latest radar technology and sophisticated systems to accommodate unmanned, carrier-launched drones -- is set to undergo more than two years ...

Antarctica may be the last place one would expect to find a mathematician, but Ken Golden isn't your average mathematician. Golden, a mathematician at the University of Utah, is using math to model the melting of the pol...

Mathematician Ken Golden has taken multiple trips to the Antarctic and Arctic to study the math of melting sea ice.

Chaotic Moon Studios, a startup making, uh, about anything you can think of, invited me to their Austin offices today during South By Southwest to check out a live demonstration of a stun gun-loaded drone. Obviously, I c...

There's promising news from the front on efforts to produce fuels through artificial photosynthesis. A new study by Berkeley Lab researchers at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) shows that nearly 90-p...

If you buy a smart pedometer or fitness tracker like a Fitbit, chances are it will encourage you to take 10,000 steps a day. But do you really have to walk this much to be healthy?

This week in science, we pondered what a world without GMOs might look like, learned about people who get no thrill from music, and took a look at the physics of flying snakes. But there's still a lot more research and s...

A new study confirms that one of Oklahoma's biggest man-made earthquakes, caused by fracking-linked wastewater injection, triggered an earthquake cascade that led to the damaging magnitude-5.7 Prague quake on Nov. 6, 201...

Attempts to unmask digital currency guru Satoshi Nakamoto could prove a pivotal moment in the rise of a new economy, says Jacob Aron     

Coupons for fresh produce are hard to find, but there are ways to save money when buying your fruit and vegetables.

Fresh evidence hints that most Martian rocks found on Earth could be from the same ancient terrain, but the claim has set off a firestorm among meteorite experts     

All the latest on newscientist.com: NZ says yes to drugs, massive UK shale gas reserves, rugby brain injuries, perjury detector and more     

The European Space Agency's ATV-4 spacecraft, an unmanned supply ship, burns up over an uninhabited stretch of the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 2, 2013 in this spectacular space wallpaper captured by an astronaut on the Interna...

Astronomers have seen comets break apart as they near the sun, but they'd never witnessed anything similar in an asteroid in the main belt -- until now. Hubble images show that the asteroid, known as P/2013 R3, has fragm...

Some unusual materials are being turned into batteries to allow us to increase our reliance on renewable energy     

Offering free contraception won't exactly lead to free love, it turns out. A study of women using free contraception shows they did not show an increase in risky sexual behavior over time.

Two more US states are widening access to naloxone, a drug that can neutralise a potentially fatal opiate overdose, but broader supply remains contentious     

A new Gallup-Healthways poll ranks states by the percentage of people who say they exercise three times a week for at least 30 minutes.

One state ranks first in both frequent exercise and vegetable consumption, according to a new Gallup-Healthways poll.

Anchor technology hasn't changed too much since Blackbeard's heyday. They're really not much more than gigantic hunks of steel with hooks. Now, scientists are working on building a smart, robotic anchor inspired by a cla...