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Injuries from working out at the gym are not uncommon, but some are more unusual than others. In a recent case, a 32-year-old man lost his vision in one eye after an intense session of handstand pushups.

Your vital signs get checked every time you have a medical condition. One doctor argues these markers of body's condition should be monitored continuously, maybe even before a person has developed a health problem.

Glass is mysterious. It is a broad class of materials that extends well beyond the everyday window pane, but one thing that these disparate glasses seem to have in common is that they have nothing in common when it comes...

A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 -- the purified germanium semiconductor -- and now researchers here are on the forefront of a new germanium milestone.

The electrical characteristics of new thin-film chromium oxide resistors that can be tuned by controlling the oxygen content detailed in the Journal of Applied Physics. Researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnolo...

UCL scientists have shown how advanced computer simulations can be used to design new composite materials. Nanocomposites, which are widely used in industry, are revolutionary materials in which microscopic particles are...

Mathematical research that could help drones navigate, and computer models for how trees grow snagged top honors at a national student math and science competition, the event's organizers announced today (Dec. 9).

Swimmers looking to monitor and improve technique and patients striving to heal injured muscles now have a new light-based tool to help reach their goals. A research article by scientists at the University of Essex in Co...

Soeren Prell reached for the bookshelf behind his desk and pulled down a binder thick and heavy with 900 pages documenting the lives and discoveries of two major physics experiments.

Nearly 2,000 travelers from Ebola-affected countries have arrived at five U.S. airports in recent weeks, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A bizarre fossil found in China looks like a bird's nest but is actually the remains of an animal shaped like a spiny balloon. The creature appears to have no living evolutionary descendants.

How much do you know about creepy and crawly spiders?

Human culture is about survival of the friendliest, says anthropologist John Edward Terrell - and Westerners could learn from more traditional societies (full text available to subscribers)

New prosthetic skin that is warm and elastic like real skin, and is packed with many different kinds of sensors, could one day help people with prosthetic limbs regain their sense of touch, researchers say.

In central Africa, one of the world's richest biological hotspots, an international group of scientists is working to preserve biodiversity as the climate warms.

Darwin would have been amazed by the leaps in our knowledge about his favourite flowers, cleverly described in Darwin's Orchids: Then & now

Not long ago I came across a piece in the Scientific American archives from the earliest days of very-long baseline radio interferometry, the technique employed by the Event Horizon Telescope. --

Immersing hummingbirds in virtual reality is revealing that they are surprisingly sensitive to a moving view

The world's most endangered porpoise could go extinct in four or five years if the Mexican government doesn't step up enforcement against illegal fishing.

Illegal gillnet fishing in the Gulf of California is driving the vaquita, a tiny, critically endangered and elusive porpoise, to extinction.

Credit: Lecates via Wikimedia Commons Can you tell the difference between the two tones played in this recording?I'm not convinced that I can, but a group of trained musicians were able to listen to a series of tones li...

Inbreeding, poaching, a lack of herders and climate change are contributing to the iconic animal's decline.