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Hidden in the Norwegian forest, this huge steel web can sense the inaudible rumble of a nuclear blast or a meteor strike half a world away

Scientists explore the final frontier: dark matter -- New particle detector could reveal universe's missing antimatter -- Stephen Hawking says 'God particle' could wipe out the universe -- How astrophysicists are turning...

Scientists have identified three new species of prehistoric squirrel-like mammals known as haramiyids that lived in China during the Jurassic period. The long-extinct species, which were about the size of mice but had lo...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Wednesday announced a $50 million commitment to fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The foundation will donate the money to the United Nations and other international organizat...

Claims that a woman in England found deadly spider eggs on her bananas might be bogus.

The Apple Watch enters fitness-tracker territory by offering ways to monitor daily exercise and heart rate, but the device doesn't necessarily mean the end of trackers like Fitbit.

How some of the more popular bands and smartwatches compare for exercise and fitness features.

Research could founder or flourish if Scotland leaves the United Kingdom, depending upon whom you ask --

The U.S. military is now one step closer to having a laser gun that can shoot down enemy drones in the blink of an eye.

Healthy coral reefs, known for their brightly colored spiny and soft layers, provide a boon for sharks swimming through Australia's Great Barrier Reef, reports a new 10-year study that captured sharks on video camera.

Iceland's Bardarbunga volcanic eruption captured from space.

Using their Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations (BRUVS), the Australian Institute of Marine Science recorded several different varieties of shark. In total 21 shark species have been identified.

One of the two lost ships of the legendary Franklin Expedition to the Canadian Arctic has finally been found.

Innovations resulting from science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields have positively touched nearly every aspect of human life. --

Extinct squirrel-like creatures from China suggest the earliest mammals originated more than 200 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought. The furry, tree-dwelling creatures would have lived on the lost su...

Forget indoctrination, people become foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq for far simpler reasons: politics, persecution and peer-group pressure

A 24-year-old woman has discovered that her cerebellum is completely missing, explaining some of the unusual problems she has had with movement and speech

The gibbon genome contains weird bits of DNA that have been completely reshuffled. This dramatic rewriting of genes may have created new species of gibbon

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(Phys.org) --A record-setting X-ray microscopy experiment may have ushered in a new era for nanoscale imaging. Working at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), a coll...

The hip bone's connected to the ... whale penis. Scientists have found that whale hips aren't useless, vestigial structures, but actually play an important role in whale sex.

The largest ever study of patients who wake up during surgery has revealed that pain is not the worst part of being conscious in the operating theatre