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Scaling the side of a building without a harness or rope might sound like something only James Bond or Spider-Man can do, but the U.S. Department of Defense has developed a set of sticky handheld paddles that could help ...

Exactly what happens when people wake up from anesthesia or a coma has long baffled scientists, but now new research on rats suggests the path the brain takes to regain consciousness may be even more sophisticated than t...

The future face of modern-day anti-cancer therapy based on charged particles like protons could potentially involve using laser accelerators. However, these facilities will need to be reduced in terms of both size and co...

Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features called domain walls with unusual properties - such as...

Various explanations for why we don't see aliens have been proposed but with every new discovery of a potentially habitable planet, the Fermi Paradox becomes increasingly mysterious.

The concept of wave-particle duality ascribes two seemingly contradictory traits to a single object. Wave–particle duality is a concept in particle physics that ascribes two seemingly contradictory traits to a single o...

Particles of soot floating through the air and comets hurtling through space have at least one thing in common: 0.36. That, reports a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is the me...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three-dimensional, silicon-decorated, cone-shaped carbon-nanotube cluster architecture for lithium ion battery anodes ...

Wireless data connections that exploit millimetre wave radio spectrum (30GHz to 300GHz) are expected to be used in worldwide 5G networks from 2020. The University of Bristol's Communication Systems and Networks research ...

Ferroelectric materials like barium titanate, a ceramic used in capacitors, are essential to many electronic devices. Typical ferroelectric materials develop features called domain walls with unusual properties -- such a...

Monitoring a patient's vital signs and other physiological parameters is a standard part of medical care, but, increasingly, health and fitness-minded individuals are looking for ways to easily keep their own tabs on the...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) observed two X-class solar flares on Tuesday. A Coronal mass ejection (CME) was associated with the solar flares, but large-scale geomagnetic activity is not expected.

The U.S. government has determined that the nutritional benefits of eating fish outweigh concerns over mercury and suggests women who are pregnant should increase their weekly consumption of fish, the Food and Drug Admin...

Desertion has never been higher since 1971, when more than 33,000 soldiers deserted.

The new softer, sleeker, more aerodynamic, moisture resistant World Cup Brazuca ball is made of polyurethane. NYU engineers perform a dissection and analysis.

Today's prosthetic limbs restore many of the functions of missing limbs, but technology for overcoming blindness remains limited. Now, a team of researchers hopes to change that, by developing high-tech clothing that cou...

Though it's starting to feel like summer in the Great Lakes region, with temperatures soaring into the 80s, icebergs are still loitering in Lake Superior -- a reminder of an especially harsh winter.

Originally published: Jun 6 2014 - 12:15pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ker Than, Contributor(Inside Science) -- Collecting samples from the volcanic lakes of northern Chile, scientists have discovered microscopic org...

The robotic exoskeleton is brain controlled and will be worn by a paraplegic volunteer. The technology is made possible by basic research funding from NSF.

A brutal winter left Lake Superior with some icy souvenirs. Though temperatures are rising in the Great Lakes region with the onset of summer, icebergs were still floating in the big body of water as of early June.

Using stem cells, scientists have grown human retinal tissue in lab dishes, which they say could one day lead to a better understanding of vision disorders, or even treatments for people with such conditions.

Firefighters battle the Two Bulls blaze near Bend, Oregon, using flame retardant dropped from planes. Officials believe that the fire, which started as two separate blazes, was human-caused.