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If our best sign yet of dark matter is what it seems, then the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy is a complex beast

How many desktop 3D printers have we seen on Kickstarter in recent years? Too many to count. But 3D printing is only half of the digital manufacturing promise. Where 3D printing is additive--CNC machines, guided by digit...

Changing entrenched attitudes that trivialise cyber-harassment against women will take more than harsh sentences, says law professor Danielle Citron

Dark matter signal points to exotic black-hole origins -- STFC Photowalk 2014 winners -- POLARBEAR project offers clues about origin of universe's cosmic growth spurt -- The revolution that shook particle physics -- Ferm...

Two million years ago we were just your average primate - then we started to have some revolutionary ideas and human evolution went into hyper-drive (full text available to subscribers)

Debra Berry, the mother of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital nurse Amber Vinson, said that her daughter is recovering after contracting Ebola but remains weak. Ms. Berry also praised new travel screenings and health car...

Two people who arrived at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday are being evaluated at hospitals in Chicago for signs of Ebola after the passengers, who traveled from Liberia but were on different planes, bec...

GlaxoSmithKline's Ebola vaccine could be ready by the end of the year and in use in West Africa by January 2015, Reuters reported. The London-based pharmaceutical giant acquired the drug when it purchased the biotech com...

The announcement that Apple and Facebook will cover the steep cost of egg freezing for its employees has many people talking about the risks and benefits of the procedure.

A new study of fossil records estimates that the 60-foot-long (18 meters) Megalodon shark went extinct 2.6 million years ago.

The Fit Smart is a new fitness tracker from Adidas that's intended for people who want to improve their workouts, whether that be running or fitness training for sports.

Groups of roving chimpanzees were caught red-handed stealing crops from farmers in Uganda at night by hidden camera traps.

Incredible night-vision videos of daring raids on farmers' fields are the first to show chimpanzees operating under cover of darkness

A duck-billed, humpback, ostrichlike dinosaur has been unearthed in Mongolia at a site illegally excavated by poachers.

Sex is older than anyone had ever known. New research reveals that 385 million-year-old fish did the deed -- and they may have invented copulation as much as 430 million years ago.

The DNA from a 45,000-year-old bone of a man from Siberia is helping to pinpoint when modern humans and Neanderthals first interbred, researchers say. The man was born thousands of years after such interspecies mating oc...

The oldest genome from a modern human reveals that modern humans with modern behaviour interbred with Neanderthals as they spread into Eurasia

The first animals to have sex were tiny armored fish called microbrachius that copulated some 385 million years ago in a square-dancing type maneuver.

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In a remote area of Southeast Asia, drones are fighting a battle -- not against terrorists or insurgents, but against infectious disease.

At first glance, the static, greyscale display created by a group of researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China might not catch the eye of a thoughtful consumer in a market saturated with ...

All passengers arriving from West African countries where the Ebola outbreak is ongoing will be monitored for 21 days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said today.