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A man in China reportedly recently had a 242-pound tumor removed from his body. But how is a tumor of that size possible?

Over the course of his life, Nikola Tesla registered some 300 patents under his name, and traces of his inventions can be found in many modern-day devices, including in some unexpected places.

NYPD helicopter patrolling New York City Photo taken from the Empire State Building Observatory. Refueled Dot Net, via Wikimedia Commons Earlier this week, the New York Police Department arrested two men under charges of...

A Mississippi child who was born with HIV but had remained free of the virus for more than two years after early treatment now has detectable levels of the virus, according to the researchers involved in the case.

If you want to see neutrinos change flavors, you need a hefty detector. Yale University physicists and others at the Fermilab research facility in Illinois recently helped move a massive, 30-ton particle detector into a ...

Nuclear engineers at Oregon State University have developed a small, portable and inexpensive radiation detection device that should help people all over the world better understand the radiation around them, its type an...

Nail varnish, correction fluid and disco lights have revealed the impressive homing instincts of garden snails, as well as the best ways to get rid of them (full text available to subscribers)

The bacteria in the oceans seem to tightly sync their metabolisms to the day-night cycle, which may allow them to survive in the nutrient-poor environment of the ocean, new research suggests.

Aereo Antennas In A Row Aereo Last month, online television company Aereo lost in a major case before the Supreme Court. The Court's 6-3 decision in ABC v. Aereo treated the company, and its unique antenna arrays, as jus...

One of the world's deepest earthquakes was also a rare supersonic quake, upending ideas about where these unusual earthquakes strike.

Scientists at Stanford University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have found a way to estimate uncertainties in computer calculations that are widely used to speed the search for new m...

The so-called Andong mummy, belonging to a middle-age man, shows evidence of a diaphragm hernia, researchers find using CT scans and other methods.

For his 158th birthday, Nikola Tesla got a day named in his honor and a new science museum with $1 million in funding from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.

Re-creating conditions on the sun’s surface inside a laboratory plasma chamber, scientists find surprising insights into solar outbursts --

Deep in the sea or high in the sky? A Russian Soyuz rocket produced this eerie jellyfish-like plume as it climbed up through the thin air of near space

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Annual figures for research on live animals in England, Wales and Scotland show a small increase in testing in 2013 despite plans to cut the figure

Specialized bone structure makes skinny giraffe legs sturdy enough to support 1 ton of body weight.

Chimpanzees don't just get their smarts by aping others -- chimps, like humans, inherit a significant amount of their intelligence from their parents, new research reveals.

Nikola Tesla dreamed of creating a way to supply power to the world without stringing wires across the globe. The inventor came close to accomplishing this when his "mad scientist" experiments with electricity led to his...

Variations in chimpanzee intelligence have been shown for the first time to be strongly dictated by genetic inheritance, echoing findings in people

After much rejoicing at the news last month that LEGO would mass-produce a set of female scientist minifigures, the company has released a prototype of the final set to its original designer, Ellen... --