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The TomTom Runner Cardio is a GPS watch with a built-in heart-rate monitor, for people who want a simple device to track their runs.

Flaming sex involves make-up, elaborate group dances and seasonal monogamy.

The fossilized remains of a mare and her tiny, unborn foal tell researchers that reproduction in ancient horses wasn't too different from that of modern horses, new research finds.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ordered $2.7 million in personal protective equipment for health care workers to wear while treating Ebola patients, the agency said today.

Cyborg cockroaches equipped with microphones could one day be used to navigate disaster scenes and listen for survivors.

The withered but well-preserved carcass of an Ice Age steppe bison has been uncovered in the frozen lowlands of Siberia after being entombed in ice for nearly 10,000 years.

The world's resources are currently earmarked to fight Ebola, which limits governments' capacity to respond to other dire diseases in the meantime. As a consequence, the ongoing Ebola outbreak is threatening progress mad...

Cockroaches fed microphone signals via their antennae can pinpoint sound sources – and could one day be deployed to find disaster victims buried in rubble

Barack Obama has stalled for years on Keystone XL, the proposed tar-sand oil pipeline. Republican election gains will force his hand, says Josh Voorhees

By selectively removing people and other objects from footage, a company seeks to protect the privacy of people caught on CCTV

Here at Hub, we avoid fearmongering as a policy simply because, looking past what occupies most of the news cycle, the world and our lives are getting better…MUCH better. Still it’s...

Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone.

The European Space Agency's Gaia mission, which launched in December 2013, should find about 21,000 alien planets over the course of its five-year mission and perhaps 70,000 distant worlds if it keeps operating for 10 ye...

Just because it's cold in your neighborhood, it doesn't mean the planet isn't warming over all.

University of Maryland (UMD) A. James Clark School of Engineering researchers have developed breakthrough technology to improve sound sensor capabilities through the use of artificially engineered materials.

(Phys.org) --Tricking someone into trusting you in order to gain something from them is common behavior in both the animal and human worlds. From cuckoo birds that trick other bird species into raising their young, to cu...

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The characterization of individual components in an unknown crystalline powder mixture is a challenge that has eluded scientists for many years. Now, A*STAR researchers have for the first time invented a methodology to a...

New research shows that a major tectonic shift may explain the huge increase in new species during the Cambrian explosion.

The young woolly mammoth's brain is the only such practically intact specimen known, revealing even the folds and vessels to scientists. The well-preserved remains of the ice age beast were discovered in the Siberian per...

Take a look at images of a 39,000-year-old woolly mammoth with a preserved brain discovered in the Siberian permafrost.

In the race for food, Mexican free-tailed bats try to block each others' ability to trace and catch prey, according to a new study, which claims the discovery is the first of its kind.