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Keep those kiddos off the furniture. A new study suggests that 3-year-olds who climb have nearly 10 times the risk of landing in the ER with a fall-related injury than kids who stay on the ground.

When human brain cells called astrocytes are let loose in mouse brains, they rapidly overwhelm the mouse cells and make the rodents smarter

(Acoustical Society of America) Ning Xiang, Director of the Graduate Program inArchitectural Acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been awarded the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal by the Acoustical Society of A...

Researchers can now explore viruses, bacteria and components of the human body in more detail than ever before with new software recently developed. Researchers demonstrated how the software, called cellPACK, can be used...

To improve shipping efficiency, Amazon is using thousands of robots to gather products in its shipping centers on Cyber Monday.

Diagnosing HIV and other infectious diseases presents unique challenges in remote locations that lack electric power, refrigeration, and appropriately trained health care staff. To address these issues, researchers have ...

Programs that control the production of neurons during brain development determine how the brain folds, researchers report. The researchers analyzed the gyrencephaly index, indicating the degree of cortical folding, of 1...

The rapid evolution of HIV, which has allowed the virus to develop resistance to patients' natural immunity, is at the same time slowing the virus's ability to cause AIDS, according to new research. The study also indica...

Parents of children who fell at home were more likely not to use safety gates and not to have taught their children rules about climbing on things in the kitchen, according to a study. Falls send more than 1 million chil...

Science textbooks say we can't see infrared light. Like X-rays and radio waves, infrared light waves are longer than the light waves in the visual spectrum. But an international team of researchers has found that under c...

Nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. But hitherto it has been impossible to read optically written information from such systems electronically. Using a ...

Metamaterials, precisely designed composite materials that have properties not found in natural ones, could be used to make light-bending invisibility cloaks, flat lenses and other otherwise impossible devices.

Dark matter might be made of clouds of energy cracks instead of particles and may be detectable in GPS signals.

Dogs that help humans in danger can do so much more when they have technology designed especially for paws and noses (full text available to subscribers)

A form of HIV which first hit Botswana in the 1980s now shows signs of being slower and less aggressive, suggesting that the disease may be evolving to be less fatal

A recently released biopic of Alan Turing ("The Imitation Game") tells the story of the British mathematician and cryptographer who built a machine to crack the German Enigma code during World War II. But Turing is perha...

Applying an electric field to soap films creates controllable swirling patterns, a technique that could make precise manipulation of liquids easier

Last week's Black Friday officially ushered in this year's holiday shopping season. Undoubtedly, there are a few Physics Buzz readers seeking gifts for their physics-minded friends and family.Here's one possibility: a qu...

Where do evolution's adaptations come from? Arrival of the Fittest by Andreas Wagner has some surprising answers

Two physicists from the University of Warwick have taken to the kitchen to explain the complexity surrounding what they say is one of the last big mysteries in polymer physics.

Doctors may be shifting health care services to Medicare when they stand to make money by doing so, though further study is required, researchers report.

Watch some of the earliest motion picture taken in the Arctic by explorers in the early 20th century, narrated by Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Curator Genevieve LeMoine.