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Dried whiskey looks like fine art when magnified thanks to its chemical composition and a cool aspect of fluid dynamics known as the Marangoni Effect.

In a rare case, researchers report that a 22-year-old woman in Brazil who tested positive for HIV likely contracted the virus by sharing manicure instruments with an HIV-infected cousin.

Your eyes could help make a huge Higgs boson breakthrough -- LHC's 'heart' starts pumping protons before restart -- The search for dark energy just got easier -- Why does time move forward instead of backward, anyway? --...

New York University scientists and their colleagues have launched the Higgs Hunters project, which will allow members of the general public to study images recorded at the Large Hadron Collider and to help search for pre...

The way our furry friends turn their heads when listening to our words indicates which part of the brain they are using and how they process our speech

Six people who were buried as "vampires" in a Polish village were actually locals who may have been killed by cholera, new research suggests.

Scientists in California are bringing the ocean into the lab to learn the full impact of sea spray aerosols.

Using a 3,000 gallon wave flume, researchers are teasing out the subtle secrets of ocean aerosols.

Starving adult bears could struggle to raise any cubs by the end of this century in their current stronghold in the Canadian Arctic

Six individuals in 19th century Poland believed to be at risk of becoming vampires weren't mysterious outsiders - they were locals singled out for another reason

We know that a wishbone grants wishes, but what does it do for the turkey? From the wishbone to the wings, there is more to the physiology of Thanksgiving's central bird than how it tastes.

During a thunderstorm, we all know that it is common to hear thunder after we see the lightning. That's because sound travels much slower (768 miles per hour) than light (670,000,000 miles per hour).

A collision avoidance system for drones lets them see each other on camera and take steps to minimise the risk of crashing in mid-air

A photo of swimmers in the midst of Lima's arid landscape has been shortlisted in a competition highlighting climate and development issues

An oceanic crime scene investigation has exposed a murderous side to the North Sea's cuddly resident amid fears that its next victim could be a human

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New research reveals that dogs process the emotional and contextual content of commands in a different brain region from the one processing words.

Dogs process the emotional and semantic context of words in separate parts of the brain, just like humans, suggesting they understand both words and the emotion behind them.

Relativity is one of the most famous scientific theories of the 20th century, but how well does it explain the things we see in our daily lives?

Chinese researchers have discovered a new method to highly compress laser linewidth based on Rayleigh backscattering.

Mob psychology feeds a need to belong -- and police efforts can backfire.

The saying goes, "Lightning never strikes the same place twice." But what’s in a saying? Dr. Eric Betzig recently showed creating one revolutionary new microscope doesn't mean he can't create another....