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Instead of getting surgery, an adventurous surfer in Hawaii sought a different approach to treat his eye condition -- he dipped his head into the rushing water while surfing a gigantic, 30-foot (10 meters) wave, accordin...

Over the past decade, scientists have painted the future of the world's honeybees as full of doom and gloom. But a comprehensive study by the European Commission suggests Earth's busiest pollinators are not dying as rapi...

The researchers raised concerns that drilling in the permafrost may expose us to many more pathogenic viruses. Should we be worried about being infected from the past? Can human viruses survive in this permafrost environ...

It's about what America needs to do to be successful in the future, says the bow-tied former drafting engineer. EICtv News interviewed one of the most recognizable faces of science for the S.E.T. Awards.

April's first astronomy event will be one that is hard to miss. Mars opposition occurs on Tuesday, and the Red Planet will be the brightest it has been in six years. On Earth, Mars will be easily viewed, and a live strea...

Rare or unique astronomical events have a way of capturing the imagination -- and spawning conspiracy theories. Such is the case with the upcoming "blood moon," the total lunar eclipse to happen April 15, which prompted ...

NASA's Curiosity rover was busy scouting out its new science location, an area known as "the Kimberley," and in one of the raw images a light appears in the background. Of course, when anything remotely unusual happens o...

Human bones can serve as a historical record of their owners' lifestyles. Ancient human skeletons from Central Europe reveal how humans shifted from rugged nomads to plow-pushers.

The Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Liberia has claimed more than 100 lives, and rumored cases in nearby countries are under investigation.

Drinking just one to two servings of coffee a day may reduce the risk of colon cancer, a new study suggests.

Nanoengineering researchers at Rice University and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have unveiled a potentially scalable method for making one-atom-thick layers of molybdenum diselenide -- a highly sought se...

Materials scientists have long known that introducing defects into three-dimensional materials can improve their mechanical and electronic properties. Now a new Northwestern study finds how defects affect two-dimensional...

The next time you feel a sneeze coming on, raise your elbow to cover up that multiphase turbulent buoyant cloud you're about to expel.

This Thursday, NASA will unveil a catalog of different software that their employees have designed over the years. The code from a total of 1,000 software projects will become available for free and will be copy-right fr...

The idea that we are freethinking individuals has shaped Western society - but the data shows that group thinking rules, says "social physicist" Alex Pentland (full text available to subscribers)

Physicist Aaron Chou keeps the Holometer experiment—which looks for a phenomenon whose implications border on the unreal—grounded in the realities of day-to-day operations. The beauty of the small operation--the mom-...

Some 90 years ago, British polymath J.B.S. Haldane proposed that for every animal there is an optimal size -- one which allows it to make best use of its environment and the physical laws that govern its activities, whet...

The number of 15- to 17-year-olds who give birth has declined, but these younger teens still account for about one-quarter of teen births -- nearly 1,700 births weekly, or 86,500 yearly, according to a new government rep...

Aerospace giant Boeing is designing a new type of aircraft capable of taking off, hovering and landing vertically. These vehicles could one day be used by the military to transport troops, weapons or cargo to and from th...

BAE Railgun Naval Sea Systems Command In 2016, the U.S. Navy is going to test a railgun--a weapon that can repeatedly launch a projectile at more than 5,000 MPH--from a boat. In 2018, they're going to do it again. And in...

If a research team in Japan gets its wish, "normally off" computers may one day soon be replacing present computers in a move that would both eliminate volatile memory, which requires power to maintain stored data, and r...

Some 90 years ago, British polymath J.B.S. Haldane proposed that for every animal there is an optimal size--one which allows it to make best use of its environment and the physical laws that govern its activities, whethe...