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People walking on treadmill desks perform cognitive tasks nearly as well as those at sitting desks, new research finds. An exercise science professor and a neuroscientist report their findings after putting treadmill des...

A recent video of a sexual assault -- on a crowded Florida beach, in broad daylight -- raises a question: Why didn't one of the hundreds of bystanders step in to help the victim?

Earth Day is an annual event, observed on April 22, that celebrates the planet's environment and raises public awareness about pollution.

A massive, 100-carat diamond is going on auction today at Sotheby's in New York.

In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to replace silicon. To this end, a wealth of recent research into fully flexible electro...

Infants who start eating solid foods later than usual may be at increased risk for a type of blood cancer, a new study suggests.

MIT physicists have developed a new tabletop particle detector that is able to identify single electrons in a radioactive gas.

Looking for the Loch Ness monster just got easier, thanks to Google Street View.

The inch-long species, scientifically named Hyalinobatrachium dianae, joins Costa Rica's 13 other glass frogs.

Plankton and other tiny swimmers need to move around in order to find food and reproduce, but if they splash too much, they could easily become food themselves. According new research by scientists in Denmark, this dilem...

Researchers from the University of Tokyo have revamped an old e-paper concept to make an inexpensive handwriting-enabled e-paper well suited to large displays like whiteboards. They describe the e-paper in the Journal of...

The TomTom Multi-Sport Cardio is an affordable GPS watch, but it's missing some of the features you'll find on more expensive multisport watches.

In seeking to develop the next generation of micro-electronic transistors, researchers have long sought to find the next best thing to replace silicon. To this end, a wealth of recent research into fully flexible electro...

Doctor, engineer, and businessman. These were the top three career choices for the children of middle-class families in India when I was young. Doctors earned the most respect; engineers were...

A star has been seen spewing carbon from its core into space, where it might form organic molecules useful for life, but the speed of the expulsion was a surprise

A new study of children at high risk of developing autism is the latest research to find no link between autism and the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (called the MMR vaccine).

In another advance at the far frontiers of timekeeping by National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers, the latest modification of a record-setting strontium atomic clock has achieved precision and stabilit...

The most precise clock ever made could hold time accurately for the entire age of the universe.

This week I interviewed Padma Warrior, CTO and Chief Strategist of Cisco, to discuss the Internet of Everything (IoE). Padma is a brilliant and visionary person, one of the most important...

Scientists seek rare muon conversion that could signal new physics. This weekend, members of the Mu2e collaboration dug their shovels into the ground of Fermilab's Muon Campus for the experiment that will search for the ...

Proximity effects in hybrid heterostructures, which contain distinct layers of different materials, allow one material species to reveal and/or control properties of a dissimilar species. Specifically, for a magnetic thi...

(Phys.org)--Newton's gravitational constant, G, has been measured about a dozen times over the last 40 years, but the results have varied by much more than would be expected due to random and systematic errors. Now scien...