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Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and the National Science Foundation announced support for a suite of upcoming experiments to search for dark matter that will be many times more sensitive than...

Legged Support System Robot In Hawaii U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Matthew Callahan Last week in Hawaii, a squad of U.S. Marines brought a robot deep into the jungle. The Legged Support System (LS3) robot walks on fou...

According to the National Institutes of Health, there is no convincing scientific evidence that magnets can relieve pain.

For 75 years, computers have worked within limits defined by Alan Turing. Now work has begun to fulfil his prophecy of a machine that can solve the unsolvable (full text available to subscribers)

Whale sharks -- the world's largest fish -- are appearing more frequently near the Azores islands, due to climate change, a new study finds.

Dr. Nigel Smith appointed to consecutive term as SNOLAB Director -- Physicists detect process even rarer than the long-sought Higgs particle -- 50 years from the discovery of 'CP-violation' -- Stalking the shadow univers...

The Indus River dolphin range has declined dramatically as a result of dams that have fragmented their native habitat, new research finds.

When looking for a meal, prehistoric people in Africa munched on the tuberous roots of weeds such as the purple nutsedge, according to a new study of hardened plaque on samples of ancient teeth.

Putting a new gene into pig heart cells allows the cells to keep the heart's rhythm in check, a technique that might one day serve as an alternative to electronic pacemakers.

Adult pigs have been cured of heart block by turning their own cells into a pacemaker using a gene involved in embryonic heat development

Pioneers had plenty to worry about on their journeys west, but the earliest Mormons survived their treks across the Great Plains in high numbers, new research finds. The mortality rate of Mormon pioneers was barely highe...

The lab has set up a fund for "extras," such as educational, tech-transfer and arts activities --

Thousands of years after the invention of a formal writing system, a new study finds that the ancient people of the Middle East may have continued to use a more primitive way of recording information: clay tokens.

At Mount Rainier and Mount St. Helens, scientists are tracking magma's underground path to better understand how volcanoes works.

A fossil of a primitive Cambrian sea creature with two grasping claws has been unearthed in China.

Etanercept might be able to reduce the cognitive decline in people with Alzheimer's disease, according to a small pilot safety study

A laser used to spark nuclear fusion has compressed diamond at unprecedented pressure, giving the first data on how carbon may behave inside giant planets

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Science was the star at an annual celebration in Lead, South Dakota. At the Sanford Underground Research Facility’s seventh annual Neutrino Day last Saturday, more than 800 visitors of all ages and backgrounds got a gl...

Unlike any other life on Earth, these extraordinary bacteria use energy in its purest form - they eat and breathe electrons - and they are everywhere

Sixty-nine years ago today, a huge fireball rose slowly above the New Mexican desert. The Trinity test signified that for the first time, physicists working on the Manhattan Project had successfully split the atom and bu...

It took four spacecraft, billions of dollars and 16 years to gather the data for this glorious map of the Red Planet – now you can have it on your wall