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Altaeros Energies Buoyant Airborne Turbine dirigible can lift a generator higher than current tower mounted wind turbines, producing twice the energy from the faster wind velocities aloft.

The burial ground from a medieval hospital had been hidden for more than a century in Cambridge, England. Archaeologists recently excavated the graveyard and discovered hundreds of skeletons.

To better understand autism, researchers are now studying neurons crafted from the stem cells of patients.

Joni Mitchell has said she suffers from the strange and controversial condition called Morgellons disease.

Exploiting water's weird properties with innovative desalination technology could make sure there's enough to go around, says physicist Marcia Barbosa (full text available to subscribers)

The Large Hadron Collider circulates the first beam of Run 2. Earlier today, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator began its second act. After two years of upgrades and repairs, proton beams once again circula...

The "information loss paradox" in black holes--a problem that has plagued physics for nearly 40 years--may not exist.

Feel changes in air pressure with this hands-on activity.

A deal limiting Iran's nuclear ambitions has been struck. The next step is to ensure that they stick to the plan - and if not, that the West knows about it

No one knew how the energetic radiation from young, hot stars that grow up to be planet factories picks a direction - but now we've watched it in action

Americans who travel abroad are bringing back a multidrug-resistant stomach bug that has caused several outbreaks in the United States in the past year.

Arizona doctors must now tell women that drug-based abortions may be reversible. Some claim the science is flawed and it's another way of making women change their mind

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The world's biggest particle collider is set to restart this weekend after a two-year upgrade, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Thursday.

Archaeologists recently got a rare chance to excavate one of the largest medieval hospital burial grounds in Britain.

Researchers find that when remembering words, our brain ignores how the word sounds or how it is spelled. We just how the letters of the word look together.

With a visceral and disturbing new show at the Lisson Gallery in London, Anish Kapoor talks to New Scientist

A new map shows the distribution of lightning strikes across the Earth over the past two decades.

Electrodes attached to legs can guide people wherever you want them to go via an app. Welcome to the bizarre world of electro-stimulation

At $299, the Wellograph fitness watch's sleek design and intuitive graphics don't come cheap.

An implant feeding geomagnetic signals into blind rats' brains lets them navigate as though sighted. One day it may treat blindness or equip people with extra senses

"We are in a new era," said the state's governor, Jerry Brown, after the annual Sierra Nevada snowpack measurement showed no snow this year – which was a first