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It’s a mystery why Gordon Moore’s “law,” which forecasts processor power will double every two years, still holds true a half century later --

(American Institute of Physics) Graphene takes an important step toward commercial applications like wearable wireless devices and sensors connected to the 'Internet of Things.'

Four giant craters were discovered on the floor of Switzerland's Lake Neuchâtel.

Researchers have held tremendous interest in liquid metal electronics for many years, but a significant and unfortunate drawback slowing the advance of such devices is that they tend to require external pumps that can't ...

Why privilege genes over culture when people like South America's Mbaya, who eschew sex and pass on their culture through adoption, seem to argue the opposite?

Mollusks got it right. They have soft innards, but their complex exteriors are engineered to protect them in harsh conditions. Engineers at the Indian Institute of Science and Rice University are beginning to understand ...

First they said everyone should take it. Then they said healthy people shouldn't. Now it seems to protect against cancer. Here's how to weigh up the risks (full text available to subscribers)

Given the obstacles of modifying a chicken into a dinosaurlike creature, how close are scientists to creating a dino-chicken?

One of the most interesting things about writing books is the macroscopic picture that emerges when you're done. Larger patterns begin to reveal themselves, bigger questions start to arise. Take...

Sure, exercise is healthy -- but only now are the impacts on the human brain coming into focus, particularly for the hippocampus and its affects on memory and imagination.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most important technology we're developing this decade. It's a massive opportunity for humanity, not a threat. So, what is AI? Broadly, AI is the ability...

Metabolic syndrome involves having a collection of risk factors linked with heart disease and diabetes.

Researchers have held tremendous interest in liquid metal electronics for many years, but a significant and unfortunate drawback slowing the advance of such devices is that they tend to require external pumps that can't ...

Computers have already succeeded in beating humans at chess and Jeopardy! Soon, they may add poker to that list.

New insight is being gained into the youth visiting Alberta's emergency rooms for self-harming behavior. The study examined approximately 6,000 visits of young patients from 2002 until 2011. It found youth from families ...

Large-scale screening for diabetes in India using currently available survey- and glucometer-based screening tools is unlikely to meet effectiveness criteria, according to a modeling study. The predictions of this simula...

Children born since the 1980s are two to three times more likely than older generations to be overweight or obese by the age of 10, according to new research. The study characterized population shifts in body mass index ...

Skipping meals sets off a series of metabolic miscues that can result in abdominal weight gain, a new study in animals suggests. In the study, mice that ate all of their food as a single meal and fasted the rest of the d...

The first study in the United States of Naltrexone's effect on methamphetamine users has found that this medication, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of alcoholism, is potentially a very ...

Run far or run fast? That is one of the questions NASA is trying to answer with one of its latest studies -- and the answers may help keep us in shape on Earth, as well as in space. Even with regular exercise, astronauts...

Cancer becomes deadly when it spreads, or metastasizes. Why do some cancer cells break away from a tumor and travel to distant parts of the body? A team of oncologists and engineers teamed up to help understand this cruc...

Researchers sought to identify the factors associated with incident HIV infection among a cohort of racially/ethnically and socioeconomically diverse young, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men. Socioeconomi...