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The acrobatic aerial insect has up to 30 different vision pigments, putting our humble red, green and blue detectors to shame

If children are at risk for a peanut allergy, having them eat peanut butter frequently from an early age may help protect them from developing the allergy, a new study suggests.

An ancient papier-mâché statue of a meditating Buddha contained the body of an 11th-century monk.

Turkish forces relocated the sarcophagus, human remains and other relics from the tomb of Suleyman Shah, the grandfather of Osman I, who founded the Ottoman Empire.

Microscopic bacteria thrive in seawater at the lowest point on Earth's surface, the Mariana Trench.

Symbiotic bacteria living inside sponges hoard precious phosphorus, a step that may have been key to animal proliferation over 500 million years ago

The so-called "cuddle-chemical" seems to block the action of alcohol in the brain, preventing the tell-tale signs of drunkenness in rats

It wasn't the rats after all – gerbils, trade and climate fluctuations in central Asia were responsible for repeated outbreaks of plague across Europe

Could life as we know it have developed if fundamental physics constants were different? Originally published: Feb 20 2015 - 12:15pm, Inside Science News ServiceBy: Gabriel Popkin, Contributor(Inside Science) -- For all ...

Things are starting to look up for the rarest big cat on the planet.

At this year's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the big theme was the "Internet of things" -- the idea that everything in the human environment, from kitchen appliances to industrial equipment, could be equipped w...

Price, wireless connectivity, operating system compatibility, number of users and apps for selected smart scales.

It’s clear that we as a nation are failing to engage minority students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as well as we could. --

Urging people to optimise well-being in many aspects of life can be counterproductive, say André Spicer and Carl Cederström

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University of Tokyo researchers have developed a "fever alarm armband," a flexible, self-powered wearable device that sounds an alarm in case of high body temperature. This armband will be presented at the 2015 IEEE Inte...

Excessive exercise may not be necessary to lose weight. An injection that causes muscles to burn more energy boosts the benefits of mild physical activity

For the first time Australia has seen two severe cyclones make landfall within a day – and it's a taste of what climate change has in store

Famed British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking took to Facebook last night to congratulate actor Eddie Redmayne for winning the "Best Actor" Oscar at the 2015 Academy Awards for "The Theory of Everything," a biopic about H...

Engineers and technicians have begun to close experiments in preparation for the next run. The LHC is preparing to restart at almost double the collision energy of its previous run. The new energy will allow physicists t...

Using ultracold atoms as a stand-in for electrons, a Rice University-based team of physicists has simulated superconducting materials and made headway on a problem that's vexed physicists for nearly three decades.

This blog is about the downside of exponential technology: digital crime. Normally, I choose to focus on the immensely positive impact technology has on humanity - the Abundance mindset. The...