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The deadly Ebola virus is one flight away from the United States, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is not as concerned about home country as it is for West African countries with weaker healthcare syste...

The "uncanny valley" is a term coined by Japanese roboticist Mashahiro Mori in 1970 to describe the strange fact that, as robots become more human-like, we relate to them better--but only to a point. The "uncanny valley"...

With the announcement of an inquiry into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, talk of poisons is back in the news.

Grenade Explosion U.S. Marine Corps, via Wikimedia Commons Additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing, is inherently creative. Materials are layered together and built up, constructing an object from pow...

Physical exercise could alter how people perceive their physical world by making their environments appear less threatening, a new study suggests.

Can Google predict the future of financial markets? New research suggests that Google Trends, which tracks search terms over time, can be used to forecast changes in stock prices.

Huge waves out of nowhere were dismissed as legends of the deep, but they may have caused many grisly shipwrecks from seafaring history

Bacteria living in the warm waters off the Bahama Islands may feed on the mineral-rich dust carried over by wind from the Sahara Desert, a new study finds. The growing bacteria create the limestone that shapes some of th...

Biologist Stephen Friend is searching for exceptional people who carry genes for serious childhood disease but have never got sick - are you one of them? (full text available to subscribers)

The U.S. East Coast is bearing the brunt of the rise in "nuisance flooding" - minor events that shut down roads and clog storm drains but aren't particularly dangerous. Such floods have increased by more than fivefold in...

Scientists have used data provided by NASA's Cassini spacecraft to identify 101 distinct geysers erupting on Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus. The new discovery has excited researchers who consider water to be a fundamental ...

The generation that would face the full effects of climate change needs to help lead the charge to prevent them.

Here are some common causes of and treatments for heart attacks, and other interesting facts about the condition.

Despite the popularity of low-carb diets, more Americans still say they try to avoid fat than carbs, according to a new poll.

Photon science, a spin-off of particle physics, has returned to its roots for help developing better, faster detectors. In late 1940s, scientists doing fundamental physics research at the General Electric Research Labora...

Airplanes and birds may have followed similar pattern to increase efficiency.  Image credit: Dave Heuts via flickr | ://bit.ly/1nho7q2 Rights information: ://bit.ly/c34Awz The development of passenger aircraft over the ...

The Museum of Science Fiction, in Washington, D.C., launched its first online gallery, a collection of artwork from the archives of Omni Magazine, a science and sci-fi magazine published from 1978 to 1995.

The UK government has almost ruled out fracking in beauty spots, many of which conceal shale oil and gas reserves, but it has left the door ajar

They've been described as walking artichokes and the most trafficked mammals in the world. Now, conservationists warn that pangolins, or scaly anteaters, could be eaten out of existence if illegal hunting and poaching co...

Conservationists warn that all eight species of pangolins, or scaly anteaters, may be eaten to extinction if illegal hunting and poaching continues.

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A giant, 100-foot-diameter (30 meters) telescope has been green-lighted for construction on the island of Hawaii.