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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.

In a new, in-depth research project, researchers nvestigated what affect higher volume hospitals and surgeons had on the outcomes of patients undergoing a radical cystectomy for bladder cancer in Ontario.

A potentially groundbreaking study suggests that the worst effects of reperfusion injury may be prevented with a safe, simple solution: a dose of iodide, a chemical form of the element added to ordinary table salt.

Two of Saturn's rings show signs of a recent collision. Centaurs - strange objects that are half-comet and half-asteroid - are probably to blame

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.

Spending less than one hour a day preparing food at home is associated with eating more fast food and spending more money eating out, finds new research. Not having time available may be one of the most significant barri...

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

By transforming human scar cells into blood vessel cells, scientists may have discovered a new way to repair damaged tissue. The method appeared to improve blood flow, oxygenation, and nutrition to areas in need.

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...

The disease was thought to be rare in humans, but last year 68 per cent of people hospitalised with malaria in Malaysian Borneo were infected with it

While an Ebola epidemic has been raging in West Africa since March 2014, an outbreak of this hemorrhagic fever occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in August, leaving fears over the virus' spread to Cen...

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...