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Apps that calculate your body mass index (BMI) can provide a window into your health. But which ones really work and are also easy to use? Live Science finds out.

Mesmerizing and swirling animations of rain and snow dance across a map of the Earth, shown in a video released yesterday (Feb. 26) by NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission.

In the future, you might be able to talk to computers and robots the same way you talk to your friends.

Satellite images of the Amazon show that deforestation in Brazil has, at points, risen to levels 467 per cent of last year's

University of Utah engineers have discovered a new approach for designing filters capable of separating different frequencies in the terahertz spectrum, the next generation of communications bandwidth that could allow ce...

Using their expertise in silicon optics, Cornell engineers have miniaturized a light source in the elusive mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectrum, effectively squeezing the capabilities of a large, tabletop laser onto a 1-millim...

Oceans and oceans of units, how large are your chips?, slither of a name challenge and more (full text available to subscribers)

There are at least 10 drugs that are more deadly than marijuana, including some that are legal, such as alcohol and nicotine, a new study by researchers in Germany and Canada finds.

Actor Leonard Nimoy, who portrayed the beloved Vulcan 'Spock' on the original "Star Trek" TV show, died today (Feb. 27) at 83 years old.

As eight die in shootings in Missouri, US organisations have banded together against a law compelling psychiatrists to report patients with mental illness

All the latest on newscientist.com: how to do big science at home, programmable pop-up materials and the colour of that dress

Volcanologist Michael Manga and student Esther Adelstein study geysers in Chile and Yellowstone National Park in order to better understand the system hidden deep below the surface.

Ever wondered why being stroked produces wildly different sensations depending on where you're being touched? We have the answers (full text available to subscribers)

Earthquakes are unexpected, terrifying and can hit at any time, causing major destruction and even death.More than 1.3 million earthquakes of varying magnitudes rattle our world each year destroying homes and changing th...

The Internet went bonkers last night over a simple question: What color is this dress? Some people see it as white and gold, while others swear it's blue and black. What's going on?

University of Utah engineers have discovered a new approach for designing filters capable of separating different frequencies in the terahertz spectrum, the next generation of communications bandwidth that could allow ce...

It seems great white sharks exploit the glare of the sun to catch their prey unawares

Cambridge scientists are part of a resolution revolution. Building powerful instruments that shatter the physical limits of optical microscopy, they are beginning to watch molecular processes as they happen, and in three...

Delivering the capability to image nanostructures and chemical reactions down to nanometer resolution requires a new class of x-ray microscope that can perform precision microscopy experiments using ultra-bright x-rays f...

New experimental results from a giant atom-smashing experiment suggest that dark photons are not the culprit for mysterious experimental results that challenge the reigning physics model.

A trio of astrophysicists has found that differences between observational data and solutions brought about through mathematics regarding the mechanism involved in heat transfer from the suns center to its outer parts, c...

Science explains why the internet is split over the colour of a dress - and what it could tell us about our internal biases