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Some people can't lose weight - and others can't put it on. Linda Geddes explodes the myths about what separates whippets from walruses (full text available to subscribers)

A new mapping technique could help researchers prevent deforestation in the Amazon.

The Go is a new fitness tracker from watchmaker Soleus that tracks daily steps, calories burned, distanced traveled, workouts and sleep.

By twisting photons into spirals as they travel, large amounts of information can be encoded in light and used for long-distance communication

In 2006, Nigel Ackland had an accident. Working as a metal smelter a the time, his right hand was crushed in an industrial mixer. The hand was so severely damaged...

In 2006, Nigel Ackland had an accident. Working as a metal smelter a the time, his right hand was crushed in an industrial mixer. The hand was so severely damaged...

Researchers have built the first "biological" drone, an autonomous aerial vehicle stitched together largely with materials from living things

While the Martinis Lab at UC Santa Barbara has been focusing on quantum computation, former postdoctoral fellow Pedram Roushan and several colleagues have been exploring qubits (quantum bits) for quantum simulation on a ...

From KQED Education Do Now: Soda, while sweet and inexpensive, may not be worth drinking. Sugary drinks can have many negative health effects, including a 26% greater risk of type 2 diabetes for regular soda drinkers (on...

To capture more energy from the sun, one company is putting solar panels where they've never gone before: in the street.

What do earthquakes, the moon, and the earth's magnetic field have in common? They're all connected to the iron core deep inside our planet.On this week's podcast, join me on a journey to the center of the earth. First, ...

Stephen Hawking is one of our greatest living geniuses—his insights into the nature of black holes, space and time have truly revolutionized physics. --

A genetic comparison of people aged 110 or older with those of adults under 80 fails to find any gene variants that blunt the effects of ageing

If you've been stung by an online buy, you can get even online too, thanks to an unexpected side effect of the e-commerce boom

The largest living organism on the planet is a mushroom. You can make a hat out of a boiled mushroom called Amadou, or as our ancestors once did, you can...

The largest living organism on the planet is a mushroom. You can make a hat out of a boiled mushroom called Amadou, or as our ancestors once did, you can...

For the first time in history, a spacecraft built on Earth has softly landed on the face of a comet speeding through deep space.

A plume of radioactive material has been on a steady march across the Pacific Ocean since Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. And it just arrived on the United States' doorstep. The first traces of radiation from...

Scientists have found that using marijuana heavily over many years can actually shrink the human brain, especially in people who started smoking pot in their early teens, according to a new study published Monday in the ...

Update 11 a.m. EST: ESA has received confirmation that Philae has successfully landed on the comet. TOUCHDOWN for @Philae2014! #CometLanding pic.twitter.com/ZMBeB8ng3h -- ESA Rosetta Mission (@ESA_Rosetta) November 12, 2...

A new navigation system called Seeker could have the next generation of Mars rovers running circles around Opportunity and Curiosity

After a decade-long journey, the Philae lander separated from the Rosetta spacecraft and touched down on a comet – the first time such a landing had ever been attempted