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The people of the West Indies and the east coast of the United States are dealing with Hurricane Arthur first hand, but the six astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) undoubtedly have the best view of the st...

If there's one thing nearly all modern technology has in common, it's heat. Whether it's your car, computer, television, or even refrigerator, they all generate large amounts of heat. And nearly all of it goes to waste.

A teen who took ecstasy survived a ruptured aneurysm in an artery near his spinal cord, but experts say his case is a reminder of the drug's dangers.

The people of the West Indies and the east coast of the United States are dealing with Hurricane Arthur first hand, but the six astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) undoubtedly have the best view of the st...

Update as of 7:38 a.m. EDT: Hurricane Arthur has started moving offshore and away from North Carolina's Outer Banks early Friday while heavy rains caused flooding in the region, according to media reports.

Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet orbiting a single star in a binary star system located 3,000 light-years from Earth. The discovery is expected to help astronomers better understand how Earth-like, or ...

A detector is able to figure out when a person's attention shifts from their task and get them to focus on it again

A 1500-year-old skeleton shows signs of Down's syndrome, and the way the body was buried hints that the condition may not have been stigmatised at the time

Two years after the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs boson, physicists are still hard at work. On July 4, 2012, physicists announced an amazing discovery—they had identified a new particle that looked very much li...

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People would rather give themselves an electric shock than be alone with their thoughts, according to new research, but are the results so shocking?

Writing Robot Mirko Tobias Schaefer/Gastev on Flickr, CC BY 2.0 176,000: the number of business stories the AP is now able to produce in a year, using its new, no-human-needed, story-writing software. 887: combined horse...

A trio of technical troubles means that much-anticipated scientific results from the Gaia space telescope won't be released until the middle of 2016

We need to spend an extra $1 trillion a year to avoid global warming – but a lot of the money could come from the subsidies currently handed to fossil fuels

The retina is a complex and fragile piece of equipment, but without it, the world would be completely dark. With a number of diseases that can erode the delicate tissue and little that conventional medicine can do to fix...

Animal tissue and elaborate structures for microelectronics could be engineered by generating tiny swells in a dish of saline solution

Benxi heavy steel industries Andreas, via Wikimedia Commons Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news, designed to capture the military, commercial, non-profit, and recreational applications of unmanned aircraft. Sen...

The large-scale injection of wastewater from oil and gas production sites into a handful of disposal wells buried deep underground is the likely cause for a dramatic increase in the number of earthquakes in central Oklah...

Hurricane Arthur made landfall at the southern end of North Carolina's Outer Banks Thursday night, forcing thousands of vacationers in the state to scrap their Independence Day plans amid evacuation orders.

Since the discovery of a Higgs boson by the CMS and ATLAS Collaborations in 2012, physicists at the LHC have been making intense efforts to measure this new particle's properties. The Standard Model Higgs boson is the pa...

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(Phys.org) --Researchers have developed a way for superconducting quantum chips to talk to each other over large distances through an optical fibre, allowing quantum entanglement or teleportation - both key steps towards...