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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.

German doctors highlight the potential dangers surrounding headbanging. Authors detail the case of a man who developed a chronic subdural haematoma after headbanging at a Motörhead concert. "This case serves as evidence...

Unhealthy food and drinks are common in kids' TV programs broadcast in England and Ireland, and frequently portrayed in a positive light, reveals research. Statutory legislation to curb children's exposure to high sugar ...

Scientists have shown that instead of counting calories for weight loss, we would do better to boost the protein content of our diet. Nutritional values of foods are typically given in kilojoules or kilocalories, standar...

Clinicians need to be sensitive and aware of the unique challenges of women's reproductive health needs in times of conflict, suggests a new review. Approximately 1.5 billion people are currently living in countries affe...

Scientists have the first evidence for a shockless treatment for atrial fibrillation. For the current study, the researchers devised a method of shockless defibrillation. They used optogenetics to genetically insert depo...

An association between high blood cholesterol and breast cancer has been found in a study of more than 1 million patients over a 14 year time period in the UK.

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...

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 ...

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.

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

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...

Iran's president has agreed to spend half a billion dollars just in the first year of an endeavour to restore the once-enormous lake to its former glory

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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

Three decades ago, researchers discovered that certain organic molecules become superconducting at low temperatures. This finding sparked numerous investigations into the properties of these lightweight, low-cost and eas...

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...