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In 2012, University of Pittsburgh researchers released a video of Jan Scheuermann feeding herself a bite of chocolate. This, of course, wouldn’t be noteworthy but for one thing: Scheuermann is...

It was our 14th expedition to the trenches of the Pacific Ocean, where depths can exceed 10,000m. And it was due to be our last for the foreseeable future.

Severe storms swept through several Southern U.S. states Tuesday night, killing four people, injuring at least 20 others, flipping over cars, damaging numerous homes and businesses and ushering in a series of bad weather...

The human microbiome may have evolved to selectively target older humans, thereby enabling an extended childhood in our earliest human ancestors.

Neutrino study: High precision hunt for Big Bang particles begins -- What is the weak force? -- How do we know the Big Bang actually happened? -- Scientists far from home at Christmas (podcast) -- The top ten space and p...

A newer, larger U.S. Navy helicopter drone can take off and land from a moving boat.

It's easy to make a storm glass - just mix the chemicals and watch crystals form and disappear. But there might be a scientific basis to its supposed powers (full text available to subscribers)

American suburbs light up during the holidays more brightly than inner cities, NASA found.

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a 1.2 million-year-old stone tool that may be the oldest one found in the region.

Caltech professor Don Anderson died of cancer on Dec. 2, but he had the last word. Literally.

Sediments drawn from one of the world's most mysterious underwater sinkholes suggest that Mayan civilization collapsed due to drought.

Scientists have discovered a fossilized fish with its well-preserved eyeball containing rods and cones that are visible under a microscope. The discovery of the 300 million-year-old fish eye helped scientists determine t...

Magnetic vortices in thin films can encode information in the perpendicular magnetization pointing up or down relative to the vortex core. These binary states could be useful for non-volatile data storage devices such as...

An ancient Chinese civilization that was mysteriously abandoned may have disappeared because of an earthquake that rerouted the city's water flow, new research suggests.

The most complicated crystal structure ever produced in a computer simulation has been achieved by researchers at the University of Michigan. They say the findings help demonstrate how complexity can emerge from simple r...

In order to develop future quantum computer networks, it is necessary to hold a known number of atoms and read them without them disappearing. To do this, researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have developed a method...

Billions upon billions of neutrinos speed harmlessly through everyone's body every moment of the day, according to cosmologists. The bulk of these subatomic particles are believed to come straight from the Big Bang, rath...

The weak force is one of the four fundamental forces that govern all matter in the universe. Through the process of beta decay, it plays a crucial role in powering stars and creating elements.

The IATA received more than 8,000 complaints of unruly passengers in 2013. Is it any wonder air rage is on the upswing?

This Christmas, why no one is eating Canada goose.

At least four people were killed and many more injured Tuesday when a massive tornado hit Mississippi, WDAM-TV, Hattiesburg, reported. Marion County Hospital, which suffered damage from the storm, was inundated with peop...