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The winners of the Beam Line for Schools competition will use a beam of particles at CERN to investigate one of the fundamental forces of nature and to test a home-built device. Following almost 300 submissions from scho...

Ryan and Trevor Oakes have an unusual talent. The twin brothers have developed a method of creating lifelike, perceptual drawings on a curved canvass.

Twins Ryan and Trevor Oakes have developed a drawing technique that captures perspective images on the inside of a sphere.

A dose of the drug Ecstasy that is not normally deadly could turn fatal when taken in a hot, crowded setting, a new study in rats suggests.

A late fall warm spell in Australia extends a period of record warmth influenced by global warming.

A new satellite image reveals the grabens of Canyonlands National Park in Utah. These long valleys are caused by a moving layer of salt far below the surface.

From drying clothes to surrounding the house with wood chips, here are 10 ways to avoid tick bites, which can transmit a host of diseases.

It's a classic diving competition taken to extreme limits: The 2014 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series -- an event that sees world-class divers plunge from jaw-dropping heights -- will be making a stop in Texas this week...

An amazing new video shows Arctic life from a polar bear's point of view.

A robotic hand working with a Kinect depth-sensing camera can adjust its fingers to grasp any object it is presented with, from a lightbulb to a copy of New Scientist

Advances in exponential technology happen fast -- too fast for Singularity Hub to cover them all. This weekly bulletin points to significant developments to keep readers in the know. In an attempt to make robots less unc...

Our ability to feel pain varies throughout the surface of our body, a finding that could help people with long-term chronic pain

New rules about sunscreen labels went into effect last summer. Here are tips for choosing sunscreen.

The definitive human tool gets a 21st-century upgrade with 3D-printed handles that artfully highlight the hand axe's sheer range of uses

Tourists, no need to worry about picking an outfit for your suborbital flight--this flexible, comfortable suit has you covered. Final Frontier Design (FFD), a private design firm based in Brooklyn, has partnered with Sta...

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Being cold turns energy-storing fat into energy-burning fat. It turns out an injection of immune signalling molecules will do the same thing

For decades, physicists have searched in vain for exotic bound states comprising more than three quarks. Experiments performed at Jülich's accelerator COSY have now shown that, in fact, such complex particles do exist i...

Physicists succeeded in the first direct high-precision measurement of a fundamental property of the proton / Results will contribute to a better understanding of the matter/antimatter asymmetry.

Amazon is releasing a new product later this month, and rumors are circulating that the new device is a smartphone with a 3D display.

With free-market capitalism and its tried-and-true methods of mass production, mainstream consumers are inundated with more product choices than many have time to make, while smaller, specialized segments of the populati...

A female polar bear equipped with a radio collar was captured having a meal, interacting with a potential mate, and swimming. The footage was recorded in April 2014 in the Beaufort Sea, a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean...