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(American Chemical Society) Coffee drinkers beware: Surprise ingredients may be hiding in your coffee, and growing shortages may well increase the chance of having more fillers in the future. A new test that will be repo...

The annual Perseid meteor shower finds itself in an unusual situation -- competing for attention in August with the supermoon. August's full moon will pose a problem for the Perseids as the bright light will black out di...

Some overweight and obese preschoolers may already have risk factors for heart disease and diabetes, a new study from Italy suggest.

For decades, researchers have used the Turing test to evaluate how well a machine can think like a human. But this gauge of artificial intelligence is 60 years old, and is in dire need of an update, experts say.

After a new 3D artificial "rat brain" was created in the lab, it got some bizarre treatment: Researchers dropped weights onto the tissue from different heights to see how it might react to a traumatic injury.

Primitive creatures known as rangeomorphs vanished from the seas because they couldn't harvest nutrients from the water column and because they became prey to fast-moving Cambrian creatures, a 3D reconstruction suggests.

Nine British universities and research institutions are sending their collections of important texts from the history of medicine and science to the London-based Wellcome Library so that the pages can be made freely avai...

In July 2014, the Wellcome Library announced that it would digitize more than 15 million pages of medical books and pamphlets published between 1800 and 1900 to help build up the U.K. Medical Heritage Library.

Everything you ever wanted to know about quantum simulators summed up in a new review from EPJ Quantum Technology.

Earthlings, here's how you can save the Hubble space telescope from plunging to a fiery death and enjoy 10 more years of spectacular images (full text available to subscribers)

For 40 million years, fern-like organisms called rangeomorphs ruled the world, because their branching bodies made them perfect diffusion feeders

A mastodon skull and an ancient knife found deep below the water in the Chesapeake Bay could hint that Europeans first colonized the Americas, though the evidence is controversial.

A mastodon skull and an ancient knife found deep below the water in the Chesapeake Bay could hint that Europeans first colonized the Americas, though the evidence is controversial.

The Polar RC3 is a GPS-enabled watch designed to help runners and cyclists track their progress during their training. I used the device along with its heart-rate monitor to see how it performs in several categories.

Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego have proven that when it comes to guiding stem cells into a specific cell type, the stiffness of the extracellular matrix used to culture them really does matter. W...

To make a better optical fiber for transmitting laser beams, the first idea that comes to mind is probably not a nice long hydrogen bath.

Training an algorithm on hospital visit data allows it to tell if a patient is likely to go into cardiac or respiratory arrest

Marathons have nothing on these athletes, who pushed themselves to the limits of human endurance

From the Virgin Mary on grilled cheese to a face on mars, here are some of the best examples of pareidolia.

Social media's just fun, right? No, says a new art exhibition: tweets and selfies are creating monoculture, an online equivalent to crops like rape seed

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A landmark twin study during the 80s and 90s revealed how genes are involved in everything from sexual orientation to religiosity to intelligence.