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The Egyptian pyramids are some amazing works of engineering. The biggest, the Great Pyramid at Giza, held the record for nearly 3,800 years as the tallest man-made structure in the world. What's astounding is that each l...

Music was key to Western teaching from Plato up to the 18th century. In Music and the Making of Modern Science, Peter Pesic claims it shaped today's science

A British nurse who contracted the Ebola virus while treating patients in Sierra Leone was flown to a London hospital Sunday night to receive care. The 29-year-old, known now only as William, is the first person with the...

In states where medical marijuana is legal, the rates of deaths caused by painkiller overdoses are lower than in states where medical marijuana is illegal, a new study has found.

Rice University researchers have created a CMOS-compatible, biomimetic color photodetector that directly responds to red, green and blue light in much the same way the human eye does.

Engineers at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have successfully piloted the world's first ZigBee-based inter-satellite communication system.

Findings from a physics study by a Kansas State University researcher are helping scientists accurately predict the once unpredictable.

On Aug. 24, 2014, a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit the Bay area, near Napa, California. The quake caused more than 170 injuries, and damaged buildings and homes in the region.

Certain types of gut bacteria could ward off food allergies, according to a new study in mice.

Mindfulness training for individuals with early-stage dementia and their caregivers together in the same class was beneficial for both groups, easing depression and improving sleep and quality of life. Just eight session...

Doctors should make a point of offering a flu vaccine to their patients, experts say. A simple reminder could considerably reduce the number of racial and ethnic minorities who currently do not vaccinate themselves again...

Human volunteers immunized against the avian flu virus H5N1 readily developed antibodies against the stem region of the viral hemagglutinin protein. In contrast, those immunized with standard seasonal trivalent vaccines ...

Black carbon pollutants from wood smoke are known to trap heat near the earth's surface and warm the climate. A new study suggests that black carbon may also increase women's risk of cardiovascular disease.

The skull of an ancient human ancestor fails to show evidence of the type of brain expansion typically seen in modern human infants, according to a new study.

Precise, gentle and efficient cell separation from a device the size of a cell phone may be possible thanks to tilt-angle standing surface acoustic waves, according to a team of engineers.

Heat is constantly flowing into space from the ground beneath our feet. Might we capture some of it to generate electricity? (full text available to subscribers)

Every day, 6.6 million gallons of tar-sands mining waste head to huge ponds in Canada -- and yet no one has a good handle on how well those ponds are contained.

Conventional wisdom says that the scaffold in an important class of biological molecules called 'glycoconjugates' is essentially inert. Work by a chemist suggests otherwise. The discovery opens up new avenues for researc...

NASA's Earth Observatory released a photo of a giant supercell thunderstorm that formed over North Carolina in May.

Data from people who wear fitness tracker Jawbone UP shows how everyone's sleep was affected through the South Napa Earthquake.

Buried under hundreds of feet of ice, Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano has been shaking for more than a week now, but an eruption has yet to occur.

The Drone 3 In Flight I bet this would've caught Luke Skywalker on Endor. Malloy Aeronautics A white plastic robot zooms a hoverbike over the English countryside, grains blowing beneath the bike's four fans. The robot's ...