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A U.N. convoy passes a screen displaying a message on Ebola on a street in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Aug. 14, 2014. Reuters/Luc Gnago

An eruption started around midnight local time (8 p.m. ET) north of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano.

Pumpkin King Scarecrow Imagine how much scarier this would be with a drone controlling it. SolarSurfer via Wikimedia Commons Here's a roundup of the week's top drone news: the military, commercial, non-profit, and recrea...

Here's some advice from doctor about consuming coconut oil.

Images of the volcanic eruption in the Holuhraun lava field north of Bardarbunga volcano in Iceland.

Wearing full-body hazardous material suits around patients with the Ebola virus may be counterproductive to treating the disease, some researchers say. But other health experts, wary of wearing less protective gear, disa...

Back in 1989, Stanley Pons  and Martin Fleischmann stunned the world by announcing a new form of fusion that could take place at nearly room temperature. That's not particularly cold, but it's much colder than the tempe...

Unscrupulous tour operators in the Amazon basin might be leading travelers alarmingly close the territory of 'uncontacted' people, according to tribal rights groups.

A cocktail of three antibodies against the Ebola virus has successfully treated 18 infected monkeys, researchers reported today. The new results raise hope for the fight against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.

Electronic circuits are based on electrons, but one of the most promising technologies for future quantum circuits are photonic circuits, i.e. circuits based on light (photons) instead of electrons. First, it is necessar...

The result of every possible measurement on a quantum system is coded in its wave function, which until recently could be found only by taking many different measurements of a system and estimating a wave function that b...

Project Wing Drone Delivers Google In rural Australia, a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer. The robot is a proof of concept, part of Project Wing by Google X. The program is designed to show that delivery drones are ...

Move aside, Amazon: Google has revealed its top-secret drone-delivery project, and the first thing they used it for was delivering dog treats.

What’s the most gripping, mind-bending story you’ve read this week? The Hub team has put together the week’s most intriguing stories from around the web. Did we miss anything? If so, add it to the comments. Singula...

We know little about the consequences of concussion and even heading the ball in soccer, but the sport's authorities are now taking the issue seriously

(Phys.org) --Optical transistors and switches are fundamental in both classical and quantum optical information processing. A key objective in optics research is determining and developing the structural and performance ...

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Your canine companion can strut its stuff in this authentic Soviet spacesuit, worn by genuine doggy heroes of the space race Belka and Strelka

The odourless, colourless and mostly inert gas xenon has been used to ease painful memories in mice. It could help us to forget our own past traumas

China’s neutrino physics program could soon expand with a new experiment aimed at cracking a critical neutrino mystery. Physicists have proposed building one of the largest-ever neutrino experiments in the city of Jian...

The kilometer-size rubble pile appears to be held together by van der Waals forces. Karen Hopkin reports --

The latest study suggests Earth's plates today move twice as fast as they did 2 billion years ago - maybe because the mantle has got more runny