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Don't blame gluttony or genes for the obesity epidemic - it's our sedentary habits echoing down the generations, says obesity theorist Edward Archer (full text available to subscribers)

Recent research conducted by scientists from the University of Granada sheds light on the nature of dark matter, one of the most important mysteries in physics. As indirect evidence provided by its gravitational effects,...

For the first time, researchers have produced a 3-D image revealing part of the inner structure of an intact, infectious virus, using a unique X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laborator...

People in New York state log the most steps, according to new data from an activity-tracker company.

A rubber sheet with weird properties, held by Bastiaan Florijn of Leiden University. Credit: Mike Lucibella Nearly 10,000 physicists have descended on San Antonio this week for the annual American Physical Society March ...

The US panel advising the government on dietary guidelines urges Americans to eat less meat. There is nothing wrong with that, says Josh Voorhees

Fancy taking Facebook's AI exam for yourself? Here are some example questions that get progressively harder

Fancy taking Facebook's AI exam for yourself? Here are some example questions that get progressively harder

From KQED Education Do Now: According to a new study by the Pew Research Center, scientists and the public have differing views on science-related issues. Why do you think scientists and the public disagree?

Children get the flu more often than adults do, a new study finds. Kids typically catch the flu once every two years, whereas adults over age 30 get the flu about twice a decade, a study of people living in China found.

For the first time, scientists have caught a glimpse of light behaving both as a wave and a particle at the same time.

Let’s say you’re a small cell engaged in heavy manufacturing. Like most animal cells, you are coated only in a thin membrane made a double layer of fluid fat-like molecules. --

Adults can expect to get flu only twice every 10 years, suggests an analysis of the antibodies in people's blood

Researchers at the University of Houston have created a new thermoelectric material, intended to generate electric power from waste heat - from a vehicle tailpipe, for example, or an industrial smokestack - with greater ...

University of Utah engineer Cale Fallgatter and atmospheric scientist Tim Garrett captured falling snowflakes to improve weather warning and road condition forecasts. But, in the process, they explode an old myth: the sy...

Forget the Turing test. Facebook has come up with a simple quiz that will help work out the intelligence levels of your latest AI

With bills introduced that could legalise the right to die in 20 more states, this year could be a turning point for the highly controversial practice

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The European Space Agency is calling for small, boxy spacecraft called CubeSats to hitch a ride with a mission in 2020 - perhaps the first CubeSat trip into deep space

In the event of a zombie outbreak, the best place to hide is away from populated areas, scientists have confirmed. A team of researchers decided to model what would happen if an epidemic of the undead hit the United Stat...

For almost a century, scientists have been puzzled by a process that is crucial to much of the life in Earth's oceans: Why does calcium carbonate, the tough material of seashells and corals, sometimes take the form of ca...

On Feb. 19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration took a huge step towards patient-centric medicine when it approved the marketing of genetics testing company 23andMe's carrier test for Bloom...