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Hackers infiltrated a German steel mill and made it impossible to safely shut down a furnace, according to a German security report quietly published before the new year. The breach, which caused "massive" damage, marks ...

Computer says "fold" NOUGHTS and crosses (known as tic-tac-toe in America) is one of the first games children learn. The more inquisitive among them soon realise there are strategies that always win if your opponent make...

We invite applications for the 2015 Richard Casement internship. We are looking for a would-be journalist to spend three months of the summer working on the newspaper in London, writing about science and technology. Appl...

Topology, a branch of mathematics classifying geometric objects, has been exploited by physicists to predict and describe unusual quantum phases: the topological states of matter. These intriguing phases, generally acces...

Seven people from several parts of California and two Utah residents are now confirmed to have measles, and three more Californians are suspected to have the disease, health officials stated.

New fitness devices are not just spouting scads of data, they are actually trying to provide deeper analysis of the data.

A powered exoskeleton from Ekso allows stroke victims and partial spinal cord injury patients, like Shane Mosko, to walk farther, aiding rehabilitation.

The era of ugly fitness trackers may be coming to an end. A number of the fitness trackers on display here at CES 2015 cater to those with an eye for fashion.

It's hard to get a good view of our galactic home, not least because we're inside it. So how exactly do we know what we know about it? (full text available to subscribers)

"No, no it's not science fiction; it's already happening," said Ido Bachelet to a somewhat incredulous audience member at a London event late last year. Bachelet, previously of Harvard's Wyss...

Computers have figured out how to win at chess, checkers and tic-tac-toe, and now, a computer program has conquered the game of poker.

A new kind of neuroprosthetic device is made of flexible, stretchable materials, which gives it an advantage over stiffer devices.

In the cover feature article of the journal, Science, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign describe a unique process for geometrically transforming two dimensional (2D) micro/nanostructures into ...

Although crystal structure determination by means of X-ray diffraction has had a huge scientific impact over the last 100 years, it still requires the solution of the crystallographic phase problem. This problem arises b...

The human body hosts several pounds of microorganisms, and research suggests those microbes influence the human brain.

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Experiments with rhesus monkeys show they can learn to recognize themselves in the mirror.

By listening to fellow bats, which make a specific call when they have found food, a bat can extend its field of "vision" tenfold

Our solar system may have started out with several planets packed closer to the sun than Mercury, much like the planets we see around other stars

A 2004 infrasound recording suggests a 'large body' likely hit the King Baudoin Ice Shelf in East Antarctica. On Dec. 20th, 2014, a circular structure was spotted on the ice shelf during surveys by the Alfred Wegener Ins...

LAS VEGAS -- Ford's MyFord Touch infotainment system earned the automaker the ire of consumers and reviewers alike. The company aims to fix that with the newest iteration of the system, dubbed "SYNC 3." We had a few minu...

In what is being credited as the "largest single collection of lemur remains ever found", anthropologists and paleontologists are scouring caves in Madagascar for fossils that could be a thousand-years old.