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Some video gamers hear sound effects like screams and explosions long after they have stopped playing, a new study finds.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Finding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.

Scientists have rendered a once-furry mouse transparent, its brain, guts and all. Here's a look at the beauty beneath the rodent's skin.

(Princeton University) Eight conservation biologists from various organizations and institutions, including Princeton University, found that shale-gas extraction in the United States has vastly outpaced scientists' under...

The U.S. Army received its first newly upgraded Chinook helicopter this week, according to aerospace giant Boeing.

A woman who had previously battled melanoma was terrified when she saw a new brown mark on her heel.

Cute photos of baby shorebirds collected as the USGS monitors mercury levels in avocets and other shorebirds at marshes and ponds throughout the massive South Bay Salt Ponds Restoration Project.

Topological transport of light is the photonic analog of topological electron flow in certain semiconductors. In the electron case, the current flows around the edge of the material but not through the bulk. It is "topol...

Researchers at MIT and in Saudi Arabia have developed a new way of making surfaces that can actively control how fluids or particles move across them. The work might enable new kinds of biomedical or microfluidic devices...

An invasion is afoot along beaches from Oregon to California: Millions of glassy purple, jellyfish-like sea creatures that look like sailboats have been washing ashore.

The FBI has admitted that its scientists may have made erroneous statements in thousands of criminal cases involving hair analysis

A new robotic device could make simple, everyday tasks -- such as peeling a banana or unscrewing the cap from a water bottle -- even easier.

High birth rates and low employment among women make Gaza a demographic enigma in the modern world

Two Americans from a medical charity who contracted Ebola have been given experimental treatments, but the method, even if it did work, couldn't be scaled up.

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Swim through a park submerged under a swollen lake and cower beneath a supercell storm cloud with these award-winning photos

After a decade without progress toward greater egalitarian gender roles, Americans have become more welcoming of working women.

The Higgs boson could be the tool that leads scientists to the next big discovery. After a new particle such as the Higgs boson is discovered, scientists want to measure all of its properties as accurately as possible. N...

The Higgs boson could be the tool that leads scientists to the next big discovery. After a new particle such as the Higgs boson is discovered, scientists want to measure all of its properties as accurately as possible. N...

A fossil foot bone found in Antarctica suggests that one extinct species of penguin was a true giant, clocking in at 115 kilograms

Absent an outright cure, it's thought that early diagnosis of terminal diseases like cancer make treatment more effective and raise the probability of survival. But diagnosis is not always straightforward and often requi...

In the debate over food and health, it is too soon to absolve fat and demonise sugar. Some nutritional clarity is urgently needed