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Inventors, educators and scientists inspired audiences at this year’s TEDxCERN. It’s not every day you see entrepreneurs, engineers and particle physicists breaking it down to an electronica remix of recordings from ...

Some "natural" ways of whitening teeth, such as brushing them with a strawberry and baking-soda mixture, do not actually whiten teeth, and may even weaken them, new research finds.

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Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been erupting for more than 30 years. A new stream of lava started flowing on June 27, 2014. By the fall, the molten rock was pushing close to homes and buildings in the town of Pahoa on Hawa...

Despite widespread support for a travel ban, the idea could actually make the risk of Ebola greater here in the United States.

(Phys.org) --Ferroelectric materials - commonly used in transit cards, gas grill igniters, video game memory and more - could become strong candidates for use in next-generation computers, thanks to new research led by s...

New guidelines for people who enter the U.S. from the countries in West Africa where the Ebola outbreak is ongoing will require that some travelers undergo "active monitoring" of their health for 21 days, officials said ...

What happens to a body at sea? A group of scientists dropped pig carcasses into the ocean to find out.

Each year, the American Physical Society prizes honor the world's leading physicists. This year, two of those coveted awards are going to researchers at the University of Florida.

France throbs like a beating heart as people converge on Paris from Monday to Friday, before heading out to the countryside at weekends, phone calls show

A new robotic tool could help rescue workers locate victims of disasters and other emergencies before venturing into collapsed buildings or other potentially dangerous places.

Researchers at McGill University have succeeded in simultaneously observing the reorganizations of atomic positions and electron distribution during the transformation of the "smart material" vanadium dioxide (VO2) from ...

Physicists in Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences have made important discoveries regarding Bs meson particles--something that may explain why the Universe contains more matter than antimatter.

Nurses who treated Thomas Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., have revealed new details about the Liberian national's case, including that he allegedly misled health workers about his exposure to the v...

Doctors Without Borders nurse Kaci Hickox was discharged Monday from medical isolation in New Jersey after testing negative for Ebola, the state Health Department said. Hickox was quarantined in a hospital after she deve...

Before regular air travel and state-of-the-art thermal wear, very few people had ever ventured to, let alone survived, Antarctica's South Pole. But the artifacts left behind by the region's first pioneers shed light on t...

Global warming is actually making European winters more frigid, scientists say. Melting Arctic sea ice is fiddling with the pole's wind patterns, which are blasting down bone-chilling air with greater frequency. As a res...

Originally published: Oct 20 2014 - 4:15pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Ker Than, Contributor(Inside Science) -- Life in the universe could be much older than previously thought, forming as early as fifteen million ye...

Reptiles that have sex early and frequently in life and feast on meat, tend to "live fast, die young," as the rock-and-roll saying goes, according to a new study.

A spectacular electrical storm struck southern Australia last night, causing power outages and setting a house ablaze

The vanishing Arctic ice is making extremely cold Eurasian winters more likely, but the trend won't last and warming will eventually take over

An oozing lava flow from Hawaii's Kilauea volcano picked up speed over the weekend as it crept toward Pahoa, prompting local authorities and residents to prepare for possible evacuations on the Big Island.