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In the wake of the Amanda Knox case, Greg Hampikian, DNA expert for the defence, says greater scrutiny of crime labs is needed to avoid further injustice

Metals are one of the most-used materials in the modern built world, found in everything from buildings to aircraft to smartphones. While most metals are mined from the earth, scientists have recently created a new gener...

Older men who exercise 30 minutes a day tend to live longer than their couch potato counterparts, a new study finds.

(Carnegie Institution) Previous research had shown that upper mantle carbonates are magnesium-rich and iron-poor. Under lower mantle conditions, it is thought that the arrangement of electrons in carbonate minerals chang...

Millions of tiny spiders recently fell from the sky in Australia, alarming residents whose properties were covered with the creepy critters and mounds of their silky threads.

A specialized pacifier, developed by a nurse at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, is proving to have huge benefits for premature babies. Now the nurse who developed it is working to make them available to preemi...

The new "mini" size of Starbucks' Frappuccino iced drink is a good idea, but people should still be aware that the sugar-filled beverages are essentially desserts and thus shouldn't be consumed too frequently, experts sa...

A newly discovered small mammal found in the Caribbean belongs to an endangered family

A silvery-gray conger eel had already gone limp by the time fishermen found it on their trawler, but its shocking length of 7 feet (2.1 meters) still caught them off guard, according to the British company that found the...

A small chunk of calcium carbonate known as an otolith in the ears of fish holds the key to tracing where they came from – and may be a boon for conservation

They're one of the most widely prescribed medicines in the world and save many thousands of lives each year - but the worries about side effects won't go away (full text available to subscribers)

A vast Antarctica ice shelf that partly collapsed in 2002 has only a few years left before it fully disappears.

A robotic arm inspired by octopus tentacles could make it easier for surgeons to access hard-to-reach parts of the body.

GE just 3D printed a jet engine--complete and functioning. It's a pretty cool trick. The engine, about the size of a football, is a much-simplified version of something you might see...

With more of us online, thirsty for media and information, we're nearing the maximum capacity of optical fibres, meaning the internet must adapt to survive

People who brag may think it makes them look more likable or accomplished, but it often makes them seem more annoying, new research suggests.

Walter Siegmund via wikimedia | ://bit.ly/1HjxEbL Tuesday evening's deadly derailment that sent an Amtrak Northeast Regional train careening off its tracks has many people asking how such a tragedy could happen. Invest...

A collaboration of researchers in Japan report on four years of extensive research into superconductivity, including the materials that were found not to have superconducting properties, as well as those that were, and t...

The standard model of particle physics, which describes every particle we know of and how they interact, was given much credence when the Higgs boson was discovered in 2012. Now, measurements of a rare particle-physics d...

Even if you don't know it by name, everyone is familiar with Newton's third law, which states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This idea can be seen in many everyday situations, such as whe...

The proposed Museum of Science Fiction in Washington, D.C., plans to open its first exhibit, on the "future of travel" this summer.

Many probiotics contain small amounts of gluten, but whether such traces are harmful for people who can't eat gluten is still unknown, a new study finds.