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Earthquakes threaten roughly half the U.S. population, or more than 143 million people, a new study finds. That number rises when Hawaii, Alaska and Puerto Rico are included.

People who breathe polluted air every day may have smaller brains, and a higher risk for "silent strokes," researchers say.

Peering into the planet's tiniest ecosystems, under rocks and in our guts.

A large melanoma tumor on a woman's chest disappeared so quickly that it left a gaping hole in its place after she received a new treatment containing two melanoma drugs, a new case report finds.

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation.

Ancient people on Rapa Nui may have rolled giant headdresses onto the tops of giant statues on the island, new research suggests.

Researchers at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics have shown that a laser-generated microplasma in air can be used as a source of broadband terahertz radiation.

Life was shaped by the very thing that fuelled it, linking questions about everything from our lifespan to the nature of alien life, argues a book by Nick Lane

While the LAWS debate in Geneva was deeper and richer than previous discussions, key definitions - which are needed to word a protocol to restrict them - remain unclear and up for continued debate.

A United Nations study shows that the United States ranks 15th in happiness.

The two robots borrow techniques from both inchworms and geckos to climb up walls while carrying huge loads

A juvenile male pocket shark has been identified from the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana. The tiny shark has an orifice above its fin that may secrete either mate-attracting pheromones or a luminous substance.

Scientists have identified a pocket shark that was collected from the Gulf of Mexico, only the second specimen in this genus ever reported, they say. Here are images of the teensy shark.

Ray Kurzweil made a startling prediction in 1999 that appears to be coming true: that by 2023 a $1,000 laptop would have the computing power and storage capacity of a...

Results suggest millions of cases globally could be averted with the vaccine, which may be approved for use by year end

Some crimes are left unsolved because police can't tell which identical twin DNA evidence has come from. Now there's a quick way to tell them apart

Robotics researchers are building a headlight that quickly adjusts to changing conditions, allowing drivers to see through rain and snow, follow GPS directions and dodge roadway obstacles --

Image credit: Tristan Taussac via flickr | ://bit.ly/1HZOFqnRights information: ://bit.ly/1haBUhX It is the stuff of scientists' nightmares and science fiction writers' plot points: a nuclear weapon is slipped into the U...

(Phys.org)--A combined team of researchers from Northwestern and Duke Universities has succeeded in building a plasmon laser that is tunable in real-time. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, th...

The gold standard for analyzing the behavior of fusion plasmas may have just gotten better. Mario Podest , a staff physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has updated the ...

Twenty-five years ago, on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope soared into orbit. Since then, its great discoveries have been legion, and the story of how it became the most successful and... --

Physicists have shown how heat can be exploited for controlling magnetic properties of matter. The finding helps in the development of more efficient mass memories. The result was published yesterday in Physical Review L...