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A smartphone-linked "pancreas" removes the need for people with type 1 diabetes to constantly monitor and tweak their blood sugar – with profound results

When women undergo MRIs to check for breast cancer, the scans sometimes reveal suspicious masses elsewhere in the body, which can generate a lot of anxiety and require more testing.

Tomorrow morning (June 17), the first-ever transatlantic "scent message" will be transmitted from New York City to Paris.

A diving mission to explore the Antikythera shipwreck is scheduled for September, 2014.

A treasure trove of bronze and marble statues, gold jewelry, and ancient scientific instruments may be buried hundreds of feet below the Aegean Sea, and a team of explorers is going after the hoard using the most advance...

Italy's Mount Etna erupted in a spectacular nighttime display Sunday (June 15), captured on video by avid volcano watchers.

People who sit for longer periods every day have an increased risk of cancer compared with their counterparts who spend more time on their feet, a new study finds.

Possibly A Japanese Stealth Fighter Djunshi.com Lurking in a fuzzy image currently circulating on Chinese forums is the outline of what could be Japan's first home-grown stealth fighter. Given the image quality, it could...

It happens every four years: The World Cup begins and some of the world's most skilled players carefully line up free kicks, take aim--and shoot way over the goal. The players are all trying to bend the ball into a top c...

Europe's most active volcano - Mount Etna, on the Italian island of Sicily - continued to erupt on June 16th, 2014. Spectacular footage show the eruption from its southern crater.

Female spiders that live socially in colonies may adopt "warrior" or "nanny" roles, similar to how insects can form soldier and worker castes, researchers say. These findings could shed light on how differences in person...

The Navy and DARPA have signed an agreement to launch a program to develop long-range reconnaissance drones that would launch from ships.

Europe's rivers are awash with organic chemicals that can kill or subtly harm aquatic life, according to the most extensive survey yet of freshwater pollution

We obliterated smallpox 35 years ago, so what will it take to wipe other diseases, like polio and HIV, off the face of the planet today? (full text available to subscribers)

Originally published: Jun 13 2014 - 10:00am, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Joel N. Shurkin, Contributor(Inside Science) -- If the paint job on your car is not applied properly, rust happens. If a cell in your skin behav...

Physicists at the University of Rochester have created a silicon nanocavity that allows light to be trapped longer than in other similarly-sized optical cavities. An innovative design approach, which mimics evolutionary ...

Melting and refreezing creates giant jellyroll-like ice sculptures under Greenland's northern ice sheet. The newfound wonderland gives scientists a better picture of how Greenland's ice behaves and how that might change ...

Physicist Katherine Freese drinks deep of her life's adventures and cosmic mysteries alike in her captivatingly frank book The Cosmic Cocktail

The world's biggest active volcano, Hawaii's towering Mauna Loa, may be rumbling back to life. But don't change any tropical vacation plans yet: there are no signs the massive peak plans to erupt.

Today on YouTube we see a showdown between two science greats, with an additional big scicomm name included for good measure! I’ve written about Epic Rap Battles of History previously about the... --

Particle physicists playfully take sides over whether the Large Hadron Collider is likely to discover evidence of Supersymmetry. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have exactly two years to find evidence of new part...