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What does the name Alessandro have that Howard doesn't? With its double S's and Greek origin, it's just sexier, according to an online survey on male and female names.

Beyond the genome, 3D printing is bringing a new dimension to personalized health care.

An analysis of data on 945 patients with prostate cancer that is managed with active surveillance shows differences in outcomes depending on whether the patient was low or intermediate risk at diagnosis. Compared to pati...

After having examined the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) new health assessment of bisphenol A, Danish experts maintain its assessment of the chemical compound, maintaining that the safe level recently recommended ...

During their first run, experiments at the Large Hadron Collider rediscovered 50 years' worth of physics research in a single month. In 2010, the brand-spanking-new CMS and ATLAS detectors started taking data for the fir...

Dendrites -- the microscopic, pin-like fibers that cause rechargeable batteries to short circuit -- create fire hazards and can limit the ability of batteries to power our smart phones and store renewable energy for a ra...

Adventurer and aeronaut Bertrand Piccard is poised to take to the skies in a sun-powered plane that's wider than a 747 but only as heavy as a family car

In the courtroom, don't assume the "science" is up to academic standards.

We're getting ready to send a probe to Jupiter's icy moon - but how will we know if anything lives there?

All languages evolve over time, but finding how and when certain changes happen is a daunting task for linguists faced with an overwhelming amount of data. Now researchers from the U.S. and the U.K. have used a statistic...

Mysterious flooding and high tides along the East Coast in 2009 and 2010 now have an explanation: a major change in the Atlantic Ocean's wind patterns and warm-water currents.

For more than 50 years, scientists have been scanning the heavens for signals that may have been generated by intelligent alien life. Some researchers are advocating that we beam out signals of our own designed to catch ...

NASA's Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite shows wind blown Saharan dust nourishes plants with phosphorus, which is in limited supply in the Amazon.

Alaska joins Colorado and Washington as the third U.S. state to legalize the recreational use marijuana.

The University of Minnesota and the Center for Sustainable Polymers are using computer modeling to re-create plastic without using petroleum and natural gas. The goal is to create products that are less hazardous to the ...

The swooping pterosaur snatched a fish from the water, only to be caught by a much bigger fish leaping into the air (full text available to subscribers)

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Carrying a full cup of coffee from the kitchen to the dining room can be precarious for a sleepy-eyed caffeine addict who might accidentally send a wave of java sloshing over the rim. But add a bit of foam to the top and...

Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in the air and even quickly diagnose and treat cancer, according to the Australian sc...

We tend to think of cars as a mature technology. They're good enough to be boring. But something weird is happening. Silicon Valley is eyeing the car business. First it was...

Newly developed tiny antennas, likened to spotlights on the nanoscale, offer the potential to measure food safety, identify pollutants in the air and even quickly diagnose and treat cancer, according to the Australian sc...

Carrying a full cup of coffee from the kitchen to the dining room can be precarious for a sleepy-eyed caffeine addict who might accidentally send a wave of java sloshing over the rim. But add a bit of foam to the top and...