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What if you could check into a hotel, have your luggage carried to your room and order a coffee -- all with help from a team of robots?

Zookeepers at Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo began a fascinating social experiment in 2010: They put a group of chimpanzees raised locally in the Netherlands together with a group of chimps raised in Scotland. This kind of chi...

Drones have become an important tool in war, but these robotic flyers could have myriad uses off the battlefield, including as bird-watchers.

How will you positively impact billions of people? At Singularity University, this question is often posed to program participants packed into the classroom at the NASA Research Park in the heart of Silicon Valley. Since...

We ask experts to explain why the measles outbreak is happening now and how the vaccine can protect against the virus' spread.

People who support pot smoking seem to be more vocal about the topic on Twitter than those who oppose lighting up, a new study of marijuana hashtags finds.

Iceberg calving events have distinctive sounds that could help scientists pinpoint how much ice is vanishing and contributing to sea level rise.

Scientists discovered in 1937 that liquid helium-4, when chilled to extremely low temperatures, became a superfluid that could leak through glass, overflow its containers, or eternally gush like a fountain.

A team of scientists has identified the complex process by which materials are shaped and ultimately dissolved by surrounding water currents. The study, conducted by researchers at NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical...

"Parenthood" stars Craig T. Nelson, Peter Krause, Sam Jaeger and Max Burkholder explain the show's role in starting discussions around mental health issues, particularly Asperger's syndrome - but also substance abuse, ag...

The rise and fall of sea level during the past million years matches up with valleys and ridges on the seafloor, suggesting a link between underwater eruptions and ice ages, two new studies find.

Emerging links between climate change and shifts in the Earth's crust suggest the world faces an upsurge in volcanic activity

Scientists, researching ways to detect glacial ice loss, have discovered that distinct "rumbles, snaps and splashes" occur during ice loss, or calving events. This could lead to inexpensive ways to monitors glaciers.

It seems that most Americans have financial anxieties. But parents, Gen Xers, millennials, women and those living in lower-income households report higher-than-average levels of stress about money.

The Planck space telescope's newest map shows that the first stars formed later than previously believed, extending an era known as the cosmic dark ages

A stunning series of snaps captured from the International Space Station focuses in on UNESCO World Heritage Sites

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n 2010, Frek (a Dutch chimp) has high pitched grunts compared to Lucy (an Edinburgh chimp). By 2013, the grunts of Frek and Lucy have become much more similar.

Recordings of Dutch chimps that were moved to a Scottish zoo reveal for the first time that chimps can learn foreign words

Originally published: Jan 30 2015 - 10:15am, Inside Science TVBy: Marsha Lewis, Contributing Producer(Inside Science TV) -- They may look flimsy, but the materials printed with 3-D printing technology are one-of-a-kind, ...

Just as an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs that ruled the Earth and made way for small furry mammals, a new wave of planetary disruptions is about to occur. The...

Modernisation is not helping rebalance India's sex ratio. In fact, with 6 million fewer girls born between 2001 and 2011, it is making it worse