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In 1985, then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and US president Ronald Reagan launched one of the unlikeliest ideas of the Cold War.

Play a flute in Carnegie Hall, and the tone will resonate and fill the space. Play that same flute in the Grand Canyon, and the sound waves will crash against the rock walls, folding back in on each other in sonic chaos....

Raw tuna is the suspected source of a new outbreak of Salmonella, but how does tuna become contaminated with the bacteria in the first place?

Here are some of the other amazing advances in animal surgeries.

The relationship between US law enforcers and the communities they protect is broken, but data can be used to repair that trust

Sometimes a little damage can do a lot of good--at least in the case of iron-based high-temperature superconductors. Bombarding these materials with high-energy heavy ions introduces nanometer-scale damage tracks that ca...

Put away those reading glasses. A new type of screen will make any page look just right for your eyes (full text available to subscribers)

A clean-up is under way on California's coastline, following an oil spillage on Tuesday that threatens the area's wildlife

For the first time, scientists have revealed how a remote Papua New Guinean clan mummifies the bodies of their people.

The beauty of the fallout from particles slamming into each other with record-breaking energy can be seen in images released yesterday.

The House of Representatives has voted to exempt the fledgling space industry from much regulation for 10 more years, but critics say it doesn't protect passengers

Jason Silva isn't a scientist, he's a synthesizer. And he is a quoting machine. Kevin Kelly, Freeman Dyson, Ernest Becker, Erik Davis, Steven Johnson. These are Silva's heroes, and he aims...

Having an infection so severe that you have to be hospitalized may affect your IQ, a new study suggests.

Doctor's Cameron Abrams and Irwin Chaiken are developing and testing a molecule, called a Dual Action Virolytic Entry Inhibitor--DAVEI, for short, that can put HIV out of commission by tricking the virus.

Ever wanted to play a video game on a skyscraper? Dr. Frank Lee, director of Drexel University's Entrepreneurial Game Studio, made his dream of making a gigantic game of Pong a reality.

When it comes to magnets, a doctor's trash is a physicist's treasure.

Many essential military capabilities--including autonomous navigation, chemical-biological sensing, precision targeting and communications--increasingly rely upon laser-scanning technologies such as LIDAR (think radar th...

Squid, octopuses and cuttlefish are colorblind, but they can still reproduce a near-infinite number of camouflage patterns. New research suggests they're helped along by light-sensing cells in their skin.

Image credit: Stefan Kontur| ://bit.ly/1PtZ2IGRights information: ://bit.ly/cEcCkh Electronic computers, like the one you're using to read this story, are a fantastically successful technology, having grown in just 70 ye...

Don't wash your chicken -- really.

It looks like a Slinky suspended in motion.

With the discovery of the supermassive dinosaur Dreadnoughtus schrani, the most complete skeleton ever found of its type, Drexel University scientists have an unprecedented window into the anatomy and biomechanics of the...