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If you build things, you may well have a truck--but does it fly? The Advanced Tactics Black Knight Transformer does, and it took to the air for the first time recently. The Transformer is basically a scaled up multicopte...

A new study argues that women with wider hips have more one-night stands because they fear childbirth less. But anthropologists say the measurements and assumptions in the study call the findings into question.

A diagram shows the fragmentary remains of Kryptodrakon progenitor found in the famed "dinosaur death pits" area of the Shishugou Formation in northwest China. Illustration by Brian Andres

The Holocaust refers to the Nazi-sponsored murder of the Jewish population of Europe -- and other groups -- during World War II. The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 28.

Famously sluggish sloths spend most of their lives upside down. But unlike humans, these creatures don't have trouble breathing in that inverted position because their internal organs are fixed in place, new research fin...

Famously sluggish sloths spend most of their lives upside down and take a month to digest a single leaf. They're also uncannily cute.

Sometimes it seems like there's a smartphone app for almost everything, and a ton of them let you track data about yourself. There are apps for tracking your daily calories burned, steps taken and stairs climbed -- and n...

Both black and green tea may have health benefits for the drinker, ranging from improving the brain's working memory to helping reduce the risk of cancer.

Right now, the International Sun-Earth Explorer (ISEE-3) spacecraft, which was launched in 1978, is floating in deep space. Its fate will depend on the success of a recent crowdfunding project called "ISEE-3 Reboot Proje...

Water may have lasted longer on Mars than previously thought. According to a new study, published in the journal Icarus, liquid may have been present on Mars as recently as 200,000 years ago. The findings come after rese...

Biologists have discovered how an outer shield over T-type channels change the electrochemical signaling of heart and brain cells. Understanding how these shields work will help researchers eventually develop a new class...

The discovery of an unknown cellular pathway has helped scientists and physicians better understand end-stage liver disease and offers a potential target for new therapeutics that could slow or even reverse the disease's...

A next-generation genome editing system substantially decreases the risk of producing unwanted, off-target gene mutations. Researchers report a new CRISPR-based RNA-guided nuclease technology that uses two guide RNAs, si...

A novel DNA vaccine is being trialed to kill cancer, not by attacking tumor cells, but targeting the blood vessels that keep them alive. The vaccine also indirectly creates an immune response to the tumor itself, amplify...

The use of Garcinia cambogia -- a popular weight-loss supplement -- may pose health risks to people who are taking certain antidepressants.

If you've spent any time lately walking on busy city sidewalks, you'll know that many people are gazing steadily into smartphone screens as they get around, often at the expense of seeing who and what are right around th...

The Cambridge Science Festival (CSF) is an annual spectacle of more than 150 science-related events and activities taking place in and around Cambridge, Mass. --

The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy -- but what exactly does it look like? Does it have two, four, or more arms? Astronomers think that now they're one step closer to the answer.

The cane toad is spreading fast across Australia, killing anything that eats it. Yet the feared wildlife catastrophe hasn't happened, finds Michael Slezak (full text available to subscribers)

Two Michigan-based photographers, Terry Hancock of Fremont and Robert Fields of Howell Township, captured this brilliant image of three nebulas and a star cluster on April 11. See how they did it.

Archaeologists excavated a site at New York's City Hall in 2010, unearthing dozens of artifacts, some of them more than 200 years old. The objects are now destined for a new archaeological repository set up by the city's...

People have responded with outrage over the news that aborted fetuses were routinely burned at an incinerator in Oregon that used medical waste to generate electricity.