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The so-called Roombots can move around and change shape depending on an individual's needs.

Last month ranked as the world's hottest April on record, tying with April 2010, U.S. weather officials said. Last month was 1.39 degrees Fahrenheit (0.77 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 20th century average.

Last month tied as the hottest April on record according to new NOAA data released Tuesday.

A new meteor shower that will blaze up in the early hours of Saturday morning could be spectacular, if Jupiter's gravity has shepherded particles shed by Comet 209P/LINEAR tightly together.

The space agency's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator test vehicle is now fully assembled at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility in Hawaii -- the site of its first flight trial, which is currently scheduled fo...

The numbers of earthquakes recorded at various magnitudes.

The flooding that has devastated Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia is visible from orbit in new satellite imagery. Dozens have died and tens of thousands have been evacuated in these record-breaking floods.

An international team of medical researchers has now found evidence linking prostate cancer to a common sexually transmitted infection known as trichomoniasis, or simply "trich."

Two shocking street killings by children inspired Gary Slutkin to apply the tools of epidemiology to violence - and discover how to immunise against it (full text available to subscribers)

The Caribbean usually conjures images of white sandy beaches and sparkling turquoise water, but beneath the sea's tranquil surface, powerful forces are at work.

A quantum particle can search for an item in an unsorted "database" by jumping from one item to another in superposition, and it does so faster than a classical computer ever could.

Our brains have shrunk in the past 20,000 years. In The Domesticated Brain, Bruce Hood argues that it's a result of living together in societies

ROV Deep Discoverer NOAA Okeanos Explorer Program, Gulf of Mexico 2014 Expedition Three years before the first humans landed on the moon, Nobel-prize winning author John Steinbeck published a passionate plea in Popular S...

Minnesota is the first state to ban the chemical triclosan, which is widely used in antibacterial soaps and body washes.

Couples with higher cholesterol levels were less likely to get pregnant within a year of trying, a new study finds.

NASA's new Mars lander has been given the go-ahead to begin construction. The lander will be used in the space agency's Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission, whi...

While it might not make good dinner-table conversation, the fecal transplant has become a popular procedure for restoring the natural bacterial balance of the human gut after certain infections.

"Fairy circles" that form in the arid grasslands of Namibia have baffled scientists for decades. In the latest attempt to explain why these mysterious rings form, a group of researchers turned to aerial images.

Last winter was a little kinder than usual to America's honeybees, but they are still in decline. However new research suggests that giving them more food could help

(Phys.org) --In a basement lab on BYU's campus, mechanical engineering professor Julie Crockett analyzes water as it bounces like a ball and rolls down a ramp.

Olive oil could help protect against heart disease, a small new study suggests, but some experts remain skeptical of the link.

Antarctica has been shedding ice at an alarming pace compared to when the region was last surveyed, according to a new study based on three years of observations from the European Space Agency's CryoSat satellite.