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Google CEO Larry Page wants you to work less. He thinks that joblessness and the threat of a robot economy can be solved if we reduced the typical workweek from 40 hours. Page discussed the economy of jobs alongside Goog...

A "world-class" dinosaur track site discovered within Denali National Park shows herds of duck-billed dinosaurs once tramped through muddy rivers in family groups.

With an article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States of America (PNAS), a thirteen-year-long mystery that has involved a long series of researchers at both Linköping Univ...

For women, being "hypersexual" may mean high rates of masturbation and pornography use, rather than more passive behaviors such as fantasizing, as previous studies had suggested, new research finds.

As Japan braces for Super Typhoon Neoguri, NASA has been monitoring the tropical cyclone from space. The International Space Station and NASA's Earth-observing satellites, Terra and Aqua, have tracked Neoguri as it has d...

George Washington Bridge, New York, 2003 Bob Jagendorf Very early in the morning on Monday, officers with the New York Police Department arrested two men for flying a drone near the George Washington Bridge. The officers...

The United States military has grounded its entire fleet of F-35 fighter jets, after one of the warplanes caught fire last month on a runway at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

After 10 years as a theoretical particle physicist, Larry Abbott discovered a new passion. Most of us hope that we’ll eventually figure out what we want to do when we grow up. For former theoretical particle physicist ...

Soccer Exoskeleton Juliano Pinto, a paraplegic man, kicks a soccer ball using an exoskeleton built by Miguel Nicolelis and a large team of scientists and engineers. Imagine Science Films The World Cup has drawn more than...

: Two new mammal fossils, including a never-before-described hedgehog, are the first mammals found at an Eocene fossil site in British Columbia. The fossils help fill in a gap in a time period known mostly from fossils i...

Two pipsqueak mammals have been discovered in British Columbia, revealing a tapir and hedgehog that lived along a lake during the Eocene Epoch some 52 million years ago.

In a 300-square-mile (777 square kilometers) patch of desert west of Delta, Utah, hundreds of astronomical eyes have spent the last five years watching the heavens, looking for supercharged particles from deep in space.

The $25 million Telescope Array cosmic ray observatory west of Delta, Utah, the Northern Hemisphere's largest cosmic ray detector, recently detected a cosmic ray hotspot beneath the Big Dipper.

A new world-record UV index was measured in 2003 at Bolivia's Licancabur volcano.

A single gene that controls male and female sexes in one organism evolved from a simpler precursor gene in a unicellular algae, new research suggests.

In Curiosity, Rod Pyle enthusiastically shows what it takes to build a Mars rover and places us close to the action during the famous "7 minutes of terror"

Skin receptors have been discovered dotted all over our skin. Rather than telling us what our skin is smelling, they seem to help us heal

Last week I took an Amtrak train south for the holiday weekend, and there was a delay. The explanation: the track was under a 'heat advisory' and the train had to travel at a slower speed. This left me wondering what hap...

African nations have hatched a strategy to halt the world's worst outbreak of Ebola and doctors are demanding greater use of technology in the fight

Global cooling caused by some historic volcanic eruptions wasn't as extreme as climate scientists recently thought, according to newly revised ice core records from Antarctica.

Fossilized remains of an ancient giant bird have helped scientists identify it as the biggest flying bird that ever lived on Earth.

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