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Vacations are about experiencing and seeing new things - and then gloating about them to friends and co-workers back home. A group of travelers who recently took a trip to Mexico's Sea of Cortés will have plenty of mate...

Monday morning in National Harbor, Maryland, Popular Science met with BAE Systems Director of Business Development & Intelligence Security John Murphy to discuss SIBA, a new way of keeping and sharing secrets. Unspoken i...

A gold ring bearing the name of a pharaoh, a bronze dagger and other treasures are among the artifacts found in a Late Bronze Age grave in the Jezreel Valley.

An ancient Australian relative of the recently extinct Tasmanian tiger could hunt prey larger than itself, unlike its more modern, unlucky relative, new research finds. The discovery comes from a rare full fossil skeleto...

It's the size of a golf ball, but a lot more valuable: Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have now verified that a heavy piece of gold, found decades ago in Venezuela, is in fact a single crystal of the valuabl...

(Phys.org) --UC Santa Barbara physicist Tarun Grover has provided definitive mathematical evidence for supersymmetry in a condensed matter system. Sought after in the realm of subatomic particles by physicists for severa...

A new particle, possibly a tetraquark, has been detected at physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland --

Synthetic collagen invented at Rice University may help wounds heal by directing the natural clotting of blood.

Using a laser to place individual rubidium atoms near the surface of a lattice of light, scientists at MIT and Harvard University have developed a new method for connecting particles -- one that could help in the develop...

The latest Mars opposition, when Mars is on the opposite side of the sun with the Earth in the middle, did not disappoint astronomy fans Tuesday. Mars was the brightest it has been in six years and was easily visible wit...

Due to a perfect alignment, the planetary nebula, known as Abel 33, was adorned with new cosmic bling. On Wednesday, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) released an image of a star in the foreground and Abell 33 in t...

A total lunar eclipse will occur in the early hours of April 15. Based on Earth's position, North America will be in a perfect position to watch the entire lunar eclipse which peaks at 3:45 a.m. EDT.

The H191 pandemic in 2009 was a seasonal flu virus that is also known to circulate in pigs; you may know it better as "swine flu," but now it may be affecting the marine world as well. Scientists have found evidence that...

Xanthan gum helps salad dressing pour easily from the bottle, makes ice cream taste creamier and allows liquid cosmetics to stay blended while on the shelf.

A new crayfish, Gramastacus lacus, discovered in southeast Australia's coastal lakes is one of the world's smallest examples of the species.

Solid, liquid, gas, mind: it's all about how you arrange the atoms, says renowned physicist Max Tegmark (full text available to subscribers)

Using a laser to place individual rubidium atoms near the surface of a lattice of light, scientists at MIT and Harvard University have developed a new method for connecting particles--one that could help in the developme...

Explore the ribbons of rivers that crisscross the U.S. and deliver drinking water to more than 117 million people every day.

The extinct Australopithecus sediba is hailed as a transitional form between ape-like australopithecines and early humans, but it may actually be two species

A new solar-powered plane that will be used to fly around the world in five consecutive days without using any fuel was unveiled today (April 9) in Switzerland.

A service that creates digital embryos by virtually mixing two people's DNA will allow parents to screen out genetic disorders - and perhaps much more

An initiative to share the control group data from 34 clinical trials of cancer drugs could lead to more efficient trials and better outcomes for patients