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How you cope with stress before it happens could affect how you feel the next day, a new study suggests. Some strategies, like daydreaming about the problem fixing itself, might make you feel worse.

Lessons from the unprecedented Ebola outbreak in West Africa last year are still being learned in preparation for future outbreaks

Lovely photos of the loneliest parks in the United States.

Last week, we posted the first half of an interview with Marc Goodman, author of the upcoming book Future Crimes. In that first installment, Goodman looked ahead to the weird...

A new site that lets people sell secret documents online will make life easier for whistleblowers – and blackmailers

Dinosaurs in mortal combat, an ichthyosaur birth, a fish catching a fish-catching pterosaur: these seven fossils show prehistoric beasts living and dying

A staggering 292.8 million visitors toured a national park, seashore or historic site in 2014, topping the previous record of 287.2 million visits set in 1987.

Here are photos of the top 10 most visited spots in 2014 in the National Park Service system.

There's an old story that dogs can smell cancer. At first, it sounds like an urban legend. And while it isn't untrue--there is evidence dogs can smell cancer--the research isn't...

A blood disorder study shows for the first time that the order in which mutations occur affects how a disease develops, and the best way to treat it

If you're not yet familiar with the concept of a blockchain, you soon will be. The technology, which began with bitcoin, could have far bigger implications

Incoming space rocks break up and burn in the atmosphere, and their danger depends on how low they can go - now we can predict their flame-out height

"Every 13 seconds an older person falls in the U.S. and has to be rushed to a hospital," according the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. The center has opened a clinic to help slow this disturbing trend.

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Thanks to thousands of photos snapped from the air, Rio de Janeiro's famous landmark can now be experienced on your screen in 3D

Male Darwin's bark spider use genital lubrication and binding to stop their mates from eating them after copulation

Not too far away, there's a giant gas cloud drifting towards the Milky Way galaxy. Known as the Smith Cloud and made up mostly of hydrogen, it should merge with our home system in about 30 million years. On this week's p...

A new model describing atomic nuclei, proposed by a physicist from the University of Warsaw Faculty of Physics, more accurately predicts the properties of various exotic isotopes that are created in supernova explosions ...

A computational technique to analyze how water vapor condenses on a surface patterned with an array of tiny pillars has been co-developed by an A*STAR researcher. Calculations carried out using this technique reveal that...

Scientists from Vienna and Moscow have created a high-energy mid-infrared laser powerful enough to create shining filaments in the air. Such devices could be used to detect chemical substances in the atmosphere.

Three-dimensional (3D) integration of various materials on top of bulk silicon could be the best answer for cost-effectively marrying optical devices with electronics. A*STAR researchers have used this approach to create...

Scientists found that microbes may have used nitrogen to survive on the ancient Earth, suggesting other planets that may have been habitable for just a short period, such as Mars, may have been able to support life.