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Scientists opened two bottles of beer from a shipwreck off the coast of Finland to get a profile of the 19th century brews. The discovered some unpleasant smells.

COMPUTERS are notoriously insecure. Usually, this is by accident rather than design. Modern operating systems contain millions of lines of code, with millions more in the applications that do the things people want done....

Materials can be divided into two categories based on their ability to conduct electricity. Metals, such as copper and silver, allow electrons to move freely and carry with them electrical charge. Insulators, such as rub...

You've seen the greeting cards and the (possibly doctored) black and white photographs, but what do snowflakes really look like?

CRE are a type of bacteria that have become resistant to most antibiotics. Infections usually occur in health care settings.

Scientists at the California Academy of Sciences have designed a portable decompression chamber to safely bring new fish species up from the twilight zone.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its capacity to trap heat in Earth's atmosphere for a long time. The gas can originate from lakes and swamps, natural-gas pipelines, deep-sea vents, an...

The folds on this paper ring are precision-made by a laser so that when it's compressed, the hole at its centre stays the same size and protects its contents

The famous theory, which Einstein published in 1915, remains the bedrock upon which scientists' understanding of the origin and evolution of the universe rests.

Migraine changes the way you experience the world all the time, not just during an attack. It's time for a new approach to treatment (full text available to subscribers)

Most people know that Einstein was an anti-war activist, but after moving to the United States in 1933 and becoming a U.S. citizen, Einstein also confronted American racism.

The fastest star in the Milky Way is high-tailing it out of here at 1200 kilometres a second after surviving its sibling star's death as a massive supernova

This flu season has been particularly severe for older adults, with the highest rate of hospitalizations among this age group in a decade.

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Bacteria with added spider genes have made molecules that can be combined to create strands that are less strong but more elastic than a spider's silk

New study findings may flesh out chemical influences.

A doctor who was treating Ebola patients in Africa suddenly found himself in a scary situation: He was accidently stuck with a needle that had been used on a patient.

A fossil skull fragment from 1.8 million years ago has been rebuilt in a computer and is shedding light on the evolution of our early ancestors

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has been the first to publish a scientific study on the successful generation of hybrid lager yeasts. For centuries the same few yeast strains have been used in the production...

Detailed videos of leaping mantises reveal how they twist their bodies and limbs to reach their targets

Wisdom of the elders may help killer whales make it through rough times, with older females leading the pods to salmon feeding grounds

Here's the rub with friction -- scientists don't really know how it works. Sure, humans have been harnessing the power of friction since rubbing two sticks together to build the first fire, but the physics of friction re...