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Five days to learn a new skill, no experience coming in, and some very high stakes--welcome to the Tim Ferriss Experiment. Over the past year, bestselling author, angel investor, and...

In a study on mice, cells that relay information from the ear to the brain changed their behavior and structure in response to the noise level in the environment. Researchers think the adaptations could aid hearing in di...

CERN's nuclear physics facility ISOLDE will soon be producing radioactive ion beams at higher energies. The purpose of the HIE-ISOLDE (High Intensity and Energy ISOLDE) project, now in the advanced stages of construction...

Trails of stellar debris suggest that ancient galactic crashes funnelled gas toward a central black hole, sparking active galaxies' inner glow

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower, produced by debris from Halley's Comet, will peak tonight. Find out where you can see the show, as well as a live webcast hosted by the Slooh observatory.

The nation's capital sits on shaky ground that jiggles like pudding when earthquakes rattle the East Coast.

Serious and even fatal accidents can happen while using exercise equipment, as seen with the death of SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg. But there are safety precautions people can take to prevent injury.

Image credit:  nasa.gov | ://1.usa.gov/1zxRkpq It isn't new, and it doesn't even qualify as a full-fledged planet. But Pluto, the dwarf planet in the depths of our solar system, is creating the brand of excitement among...

High-tech forms of carbon sprayed on to spiders ended up in their silk, making it ultra-tough and raising the prospect of materials with radically new properties

Despite damage from war, looters and agricultural activity, a Roman temple and settlement high in the Lebanese mountains still hold clues about the ancient and medieval people who once lived there, a new study finds.

A Roman temple and settlement in modern-day Lebanon that have been damaged by war, disrupted by looters and encroached on by farmers still yield information about the site's history, a new study finds.

Just one well-placed slice into a particularly pungent onion can send even the most seasoned chef running for a box of tissues. Now, this humble root vegetable is proving its strength outside the culinary world as well -...

Cholera now menaces earthquake-stricken Nepal - but for the first time ever, Nepal wants to use a global vaccine stockpile to help keep it at bay

From bagging a comet to filtering water on Mars, scientists are working on a number of crazy solutions to the world's coming water crisis.

The type of sugar in your drink may affect how much food you want to eat, researchers say.

What would it take for us to become the gods of a universe that we create, inhabited by creatures as smart and curious as us? (full text available to subscribers)

Giving patients a nontoxic strain of the bacteria C. difficile may actually ward off future infections

The Large Hadron Collider is back in the business of colliding particles. Today low-energy protons met in the hearts of the four Large Hadron Collider experiments. These test collisions will help the ALICE, ATLAS, CMS an...

Researchers from North Carolina State University and China's Suzhou Institute of Nano-Science and Nano-Biotics have developed an inexpensive technique called "microcombing" to align carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which can be ...

Radiation detectors, which monitor high-energy particles such as those produced by nuclear decay and cosmic radiation, are being used increasingly in medical imaging, petroleum well logging, astronomy and national securi...

Quantum computers are in theory capable of simulating the interactions of molecules at a level of detail far beyond the capabilities of even the largest supercomputers today. Such simulations could revolutionize chemistr...

Just one well-placed slice into a particularly pungent onion can send even the most seasoned chef running for a box of tissues. Now, this humble root vegetable is proving its strength outside the culinary world as well--...