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Researchers at The University of Akron are again spinning inspiration from spider silk -- this time to create more efficient and stronger commercial and biomedical adhesives that could, for example, potentially attach te...

The Black Knight Transformer is an unmanned vehicle designed to combine the capabilities of a truck and a helicopter. The futuristic flying machine could one day be used by the U.S. military to deliver cargo or evacuate ...

There is no longer any good reason to preserve lab samples of smallpox virus, an organism responsible for mass death and destruction, says Gareth Williams

Government, business and science are teaming up to fight one of the biggest threats to modern civilization. No, it's not terrorism or climate change - it's a fungus known as coffee rust that's attacking coffee crops worl...

The Advanced Tactics Black Knight Transformer successfully completed its first flight on March 22nd, 2014. The truck and its eight propellors can perform autonomous casualty evacuation and cargo resupply missions.

A mysterious and sometimes deadly childhood heart disease called Kawasaki disease may be caused by an airborne fungus, new research suggests.

Putting olive oil on your veggies may bring health benefits that aren't found when the oil is drizzled on other foods, new research in mice suggests.

This happens more often than you’d think: You tell someone you are an illustrator. They ask you a few questions and then get to what’s really on their mind: “So, do you do all your... --

A Reaper Drone Landing At Kandahar Airbase in Helmand, Afghanistan. This specific drone used by the United Kingdom in Afghanistan, but many more of the same type are used by the United States for both surveillance and ar...

A female, clouded leopard cub has joined the Denver Zoo's two existing cubs of the same species in an effort to breed the rare cats.

Pancreatic cancer is projected to become the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States in 2030, overtaking deaths from breast and colon cancers, according to a new report.

Ash kicked Greenland's annual summer melt into overdrive in summer 2012. Without the boost from forest fire ash, warm summer temperatures couldn't have melted Greenland's surface ice in 2012.

Married people are more likely to have matching DNA segments than random strangers, suggesting that people pick their mates based partially on genetic-influenced traits.

When Jop de Vrieze met the bacteria that call him home, he set out to learn how to keep them happy and himself healthy (full text available to subscribers)

For the first time, wireless energy transfer has been demonstrated in an animal – the technique could lead to smaller, less invasive medical implants

Drones are already widely used across all branches of the U.S. military, but some of the most cutting-edge applications are still in the works. Here are some of the most intriguing drone projects that are taking off.

Saturn's auroras may have more in common with Earth's own dramatic light show than previously believed. A new study states Saturn's collapsing "magnetic tail" is responsible for the light show on the ringed planet, much ...

The below sea-level canyons beneath the ocean-feeding glacier cut further inland than previously estimates. Accelerated ice loss of the glacier was thought to be limited, but this finding calls into question its duration...

Every year, we travel to our local Six Flags to collect g-force data on some of its most popular roller coasters. Although we compile the data, the true scientists of the day are local high school students who wear accel...

Smashing Physics, Jon Butterworth's memoir of the most thrilling scientific event in decades, gets bogged down in the mundane detail of a physicist's life

A device that essentially listens for light waves could help open up the last frontier of the electromagnetic spectrum--the terahertz range.

Scientists discovered the bones of seven huge dinosaurs that each weighed more than a dozen elephants and had femurs bigger than a human adult. Found in Argentina, the beasts may represent one of the biggest dinosaur spe...